Over 30 million years ago, monkeys crossed the Atlantic on rafts. Researchers believe they made the 1,000-mile journey on ...

The specimen, likely to be of the ancestors of modern whales, would have helped geologists assess the paleontological ...

The Embolotherium lived in Mongolia, and other regions in East Asia, with most fossils being found in the Gobi Desert. This animal lived during the Eocene Epoch, around 41 to 34 million yeast ago.

Found at the Sima del Elefante site in the Atapuerca Mountains, the fossils make up a partial skull comprised of the left side of the face of an adult hominin. The mineralized bones are the ...

A beach in high summer is predictable. But an offseason beach holds surprises, even treasure – if you’re paying attention.

Palaeophis colossaeus, one of the largest known marine snakes of the Eocene, was a coastal predator whose fossils provide ...

A Fossil First: Scientists Find 1.5-Million-Year-Old Footprints of Two Different Species of Human Ancestors at Same Spot Nov. 28, 2024 — More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming ...

Mar. 10, 2025 — It is widely believed that Earth's atmosphere has been rich in oxygen for about 2.5 billion years due to a relatively rapid increase in microorganisms capable of performing ...