Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

A remarkable fossil discovered in northern China suggests that multiple human species once shared the region around 150,000 ...

A 70 million year old dinosaur egg from China stunned scientists when it revealed glittering crystals inside, raising new ...

The tallest plants alive today can grow to over 100 meters tall. But they evolved from ancestors that were just a few ...

A 1.4-million-year-old fossil jaw discovered in a South African cave in 1949 has now been identified as that of a previously unknown human relative species dubbed the “nutcracker man”. Researchers ...

Learn more about the hidden molecules uncovered in animal fossils from an ancient human site, and the new view they give us ...

Learn how a digitally reconstructed 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Ethiopia is reshaping ideas about what early human ...

Edgar Nernberg sees the irony of believing the Earth is roughly 6,000 years old, while being the one to discover rare fossils of fish that scientists estimate lived 60 million years ago. Nernberg sits ...

Wandering through the hills of Grasslands National Park, Jordan Mallon is equipped with 100-year-old field notes and photos in the hopes these pieces of recent history will help shed some light on ...

School teacher and paleontology enthusiast Kathy Simpkins, BA (comm. studies and creative writing) 82, made history when she unearthed a 53-million-year-old fossil during a field trip in British ...

A major marine research breakthrough has been made in south-eastern Australia as a new species of dinosaur has been discovered. The specimen, a prehistoric whale fossil, represents an early ancestor ...