A new look at cuts on a giant kangaroo bone reveal First Peoples as fossil collectors, not hunters who helped drive species extinct, some scientists argue.

Ice cores, tree rings, and satellite data converge on a striking truth: Earth’s rapid changes today are unlike anything seen ...

After comparing shapes, depths, and pressure patterns, this study found that two different hominin species left footprints in ...

Researchers have developed a novel application of histological staining to screen for ancient proteins in situ—within the ...

For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for its gigantic ...

Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and ...

Instantly recognizable by their spiral shells, these ancient predators were relatives of modern squid and octopuses. Because ...

In the world of paleontology, anything this unusual is important and we feel privileged to be able to interpret them,” the ...

Newly discovered African fossils lend a hand to suspicions that an ancient hominid outside our own genus, Homo, made and used stone and bone tools.

Step aside, carbon dating. Paleontologists date fossils based on the clues in the rocks surrounding them. When paleontologists dig up a fossil from the ground, how do they figure out the age of the ...

A strange Cambrian fossil named Salterella may hold the key to understanding how early animals first built skeletons. As the ...

(Reuters) - A tropical storm was brewing over a chain of islands on the edge of the vast Tethys Ocean - the ancient predecessor to the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea - one day roughly 150 million ...