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Newly revealed fossils of four new ancient penguin species highlight how their early evolution optimised wings and feet for ...
Researchers at the Gray Fossil Site and Museum have discovered something surprisingly familiar among the site's exotic ...
Argon-argon dating accurately locates deposits in central Anatolia (7-10 Ma), redefining the chronology of mammals and apes.
An extinct group of humans that were once widespread in Asia don’t have an official species name – part of the reason is ...
Digital reconstruction of tiny, 400-million-year-old jawless fish shows how traits for evading predators gave rise to hunters ...
Small settlements and the scourge of slavery left gaps in Africa's archaeological record. Yet sites and artifacts are ...
Fossils are the backbone—oftentimes literally—of researching the far past. And because most of human evolution took place ...
The coelacanth is known as a “living fossil” because its anatomy has changed little in the last 65 million years. Despite being one of the most studied fish in history, it continues to reveal ...
Fossils of an ancient shark species have been discovered in a Kentucky cave, officials announced during Shark Week. The Discovery Channel isn’t the only one educating shark lovers this week.
A new study published in L’Anthropologie is shedding light on a remarkable discovery from Skhul Cave in Israel. Researchers have reanalyzed the remains of a 140,000-year-old child, and the findings ...
Paleontologists unearthed fossils in the Grand Canyon dating back more than 500 million years that offer a new look into a time when complex life emerged on Earth.