Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may help scientists resolve a long-standing mystery: Who came before us? Three jawbones, including one from a child, ...

JENSEN, Utah (KTVX) — For the first time in over 100 years, fossils have been excavated from what is now the parking lot of the Quarry Exhibit Hall at Dinosaur National Monument in Utah. According to ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in Africa’s fossil record of human origins. By Franz Lidz Researchers on Wednesday ...

Surprising fossil finds in a Moroccan quarry reveal 773,000-year-old hominin specimens that are close to the ancestor of modern humans. Read the paper: Early hominins from Morocco basal to the Homo ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an international research team. The famous “Little Foot” skeleton from South Africa has ...

Geologist Dr. Jason W. Ricketts spotted unusual bone fragments eroding from soft shale near Van Horn, Texas, at the Indio Mountains Research Station. The darker pieces stood out against the ...

Whatever happened to the duck-billed dinosaur, it was a real pain in the butt. Many of the spines sitting atop the animal’s tail vertebrae had been fractured. The dinosaur, known as Olorotitan to ...

In the early 2000s, researchers uncovered primate bones that were approximately seven million years old in Chad’s Djurab Desert. Since then, the fossils, which belonged to the extinct species ...