The 3.18-million-year-old remains of Lucy, one of the oldest human ancestors, will be displayed in Europe for the first time ever.

Credit: Mark Witton, 2025. Cretaceous fossils of early bird lineages are rare but important for understanding ecological shifts in bird evolution. One of the oldest known crown birds is Vegavis Iaai, ...

As detailed in a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, the researchers claim the fossil to be the oldest known modern bird and thus definitive proof that modern birds developed ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

Lucy’s bones leave Ethiopia for a historic first-ever European display; Prague museum lands the ultimate fossil exhibit.

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A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

An international team has now sequenced the oldest modern ... 13, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating ...

The remains will be presented alongside Selam, the fossil of a baby Australopithecus ... She was believed to be the oldest human ancestor found until the discovery of "Toumai" in Chad in 2001 ...

A 69 million-year-old skull fossil discovered in Antarctica is an ancient relative of geese and ducks, making it the oldest known modern bird. Credits: El fosilmaníaco, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia ...