The way Sahelanthropus tchadensis moved has long been debated. The discovery of a small bump on the front of the thigh bone ...
Some 445 million years ago, life on Earth was forever changed. During the geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over ...
A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.
In the research, published Wednesday (Jan. 7) in the journal Nature, a team of Moroccan and French researchers detailed their ...
During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...
Fossils of a human ancestor from 773,000 years ago may be near the base of the Homo sapiens lineage, representing a common ...
In rural Prentiss County, on a triangle of land cornered between a stretch of U.S. 45 and Twenty Mile Creek, Joanna Byrd ...
The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.
Sponges are among Earth's most ancient animals, but exactly when they evolved has long puzzled scientists. Genetic ...
Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...