Their species name is well known, but until recently we’ve understood very little for certain about Homo habilis. Columnist ...

According to a statement released by the University of Tübingen, an international team of researchers who evaluated a fossil femur unearthed at the site of Azmaka in southern Bulgaria suggests that it ...

A single femur found in Bulgaria appears to represent an ape or early hominin that walked on two legs before any known African hominin, but the evidence is far from conclusive ...

Authorities dated the footprints back to the early first century A.D. — the “time of Boudicca, Jesus and the height of the ...

Dog walkers discovered rare 2,000-year-old footprints on a Scottish beach, sparking an urgent archaeological race and rescue ...

Tiny fossil teeth from Colorado are revealing new clues about the very first relatives of primates, including humans.

One eye-catching detail is the researchers’ estimate that the bone likely belonged to a small female, about 24 kg, and nicknamed “Diva.” Spassov noted the fossil seems to sit somewhere between older, ...

A research team led by Profs. Zhu Min, Lu Jing, and Zhu You'an from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...

"Breakthrough: Telescopes - The Truth is Out There" Premieres March 5 SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND / ACCESS Newswire / March ...

A new life-cycle analysis reveals that bio-based plastics are better for the climate but worse for biodiversity. The greenest ...

After an ancient mass extinction wiped out ocean life, what came next? A quarry in China just answered that question.

Invisible for 115,000 years, these chilling "ghost fossils" just emerged from the burning sands of the Nefud Desert to ...