Heléna Muirhead-Hunt has made an exciting discovery of a new fossil species called Edrathina obditchia in Newfoundland's ...

More than 12,000 microscopic fossils recovered from 1.7-billion-year-old rocks in northern Australia are offering scientists ...

Teeth and bone fragments unearthed in a cave in China, along with animal bones and stone tools, help paint a picture of Denisovan life.

The oldest fossil remains of Homo sapiens, dating back to 300,000 years, have been found at a site in Jebel Irhoud, Morocco. This is 100,000 years older than previously discovered fossils of Homo ...

Jeanerpeton was long labeled as another species, highlighting how much ancient amphibian diversity may have gone unnoticed.

A newly discovered ape species that lived around 17 million years ago suggests that the first apes may have evolved in North Africa, not East Africa as previously thought. In 2023 and 2024, at the ...

City crews working on an infrastructure project in Oceanside, California, found fossils of a prehistoric animal that could be more than 40 million years old.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 500 fossils, including remains of mammoths, ancient bison and giant ground sloths, were unearthed beneath Los Angeles ...

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