Long ago, approximately 2.6 million years ago during the Ice Age, prehistoric animals roamed throughout the U.S., including Louisiana. Prehistoric megafauna like the mastodon, which were large, ...

Jan 28 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than a half billion years ago, showing a deep-water ecosystem thriving in the ...

Researchers say the fossil found in Aberdeenshire is neither plant nor fungus as previously thought.

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

But this latest discovery seems to challenge that. It appears that Paranthropus had greater dietary flexibility than first interpreted, could adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions and was ...

Where did our species first emerge? Fossils discovered in Morocco dating back more than 773,000 years bolster the theory that Homo sapiens originally appeared in Africa, scientists said in a study ...

© Philipp Gunz/MPI EVA Leipzig Who came before us? This question has always intrigued scientists. Fossils recently unearthed in Morocco could help us solve this enigma. A discovery in Morocco The 21 ...

Layers of rock can tell the story of life on Earth, but only if you know when each chapter was written. For many dinosaur sites, that date has been little more than a rough guess. Now, a team of ...

Artistic reconstruction of a newly hatched troodontid-like dinosaur resting among fragments of its eggshell (loosely based on Mongolian microtroodontid-type). These eggshells, when buried within ...

A fossil dating back 410 million years has been identified as a new form of life as it goes on display at a Scots museum. The ...