The earliest traces of life to be found in the Barton area of the southern end of the Hampshire basin are in the form of ...

Sensing the familiar jolt of adrenaline that surged anytime she came across a fossil, she called out to her husband, Patrick, who was digging nearby. Carefully, the two amateur paleontologists ...

Scientists discovered a 480-million-year-old phosphatic sponge in South China, making it the oldest known stromatoporoid and ...

Rare artifacts like this, as well as fossils, help us determine where we came from and reveal more of humanity’s story. When commercial fishing nets dredged up a fossilized jawbone off Taiwan ...

Scientists have gained more insight into an extinct species of archaic humans after confirmation that the oldest human fossil in Taiwan is the remains of a Denisovan. Analysis of proteins extracted ...

To find answers, a team of researchers studied North America’s fossil record, focusing on the 18 million years before the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period. The new analysis ...

A chance encounter on Facebook might have landed the city a mascot and fundraising opportunity for its planned fossil park. Rick Spears, an artist and retired educator from the Atlanta area ...

A decline in fossil records from around 75 million years ago suggests they were already dwindling in number before the devastating asteroid strike. However, new research suggests that dinosaurs ...

Professor Lars Schmitz joins WIRED to guide us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal ...

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What little we know about Denisovans is based on a handful of fragmented fossil remains unearthed in Siberia’s Denisova Cave and China’s Tibetan Plateau. A new analysis, however, adds another ...

This building’s history is rich, containing fossils that are around 340 million years old and has a claim to being the home of Wisconsin’s first Black-owned and operated bank. The Kilbourn ...