Experts and novices alike hunt for specimens that could change our understanding of evolution – and all only a short day trip from Melbourne ...
X has recently seen a claim about the world’s oldest tree said to be in Tanzania, Africa. The tree appears ancient, with a ...
We went fossil hunting in Georgia and found something unbelievable. These fossils date back between 400 and 500 million years ...
Palaeontologists reported some remarkable dinosaur fossils this year, including a Velociraptor relative, a dome-headed ...
Scientists exploring Romania’s Hațeg Basin have discovered one of the densest dinosaur fossil sites ever found, with bones ...
The Haţeg Basin in western Romania holds one of the greatest fossil assemblages from the Late Cretaceous period, and it ...
Lucy's position in the history of human evolution is currently being challenged. The Lucy fossil species, or Australopithecus ...
For more than a century, fossils meant bones, shells and the occasional imprint of a leaf. Now, a wave of research is showing ...
The U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) updated critical minerals list now encompasses 60 different materials, representing ...
The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...
Paleontologists have uncovered the oldest known dinosaur footprints from Chile and the western margin of the ancient ...
Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.