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A newly discovered fossil from a human ancestor, estimated to be between 1.1 and 1.4 million years old, has further complicated the already tangled story of human evolution. Found in northern ...

New research published in the journal Nature on Wednesday reveals the fossil is between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years old. “The fossil is exciting," said Eric Delson, a paleontologist at the ...

Fragments of the left side of the skull of a human relative have been discovered in Spain, revealing the face of the oldest human ancestor ever discovered in Western Europe.

Preliminary results highlighted organic remnants and traces of marine fossils—findings that, according to the team, are unlike anything previously documented in the region’s geological records.

The fossil, dubbed the Elgol dinosaur, represents Scotland’s earliest recorded dinosaur, discovered near Elgol in the island’s south in 1973. Despite its initial discovery, the fossil remained ...

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds. The recently ...

A new study published by archaeologists in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology set out to answer questions about the spatiality, chronology, and symbolic aspects of Southern Jê burial ...

Russia earned $254 billion from fossil fuel exports last year, a 3% drop over the previous year. Despite Western bans on Russian crude and refined products, Russian oil exports are down a mere 8% ...

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These trace fossils are interpreted as recording foraging strategies employed by lake-margin waterbirds searching for prey. The fossils were recovered from the Green River Formation, which spans ...

They reference the minerals, metals, and fossils already in the archeological record to provide compelling evidence of how everyday objects like ballpoint pens or the chicken bones from dinner ...