More than 20 years ago, volunteers helped transform the Madera County Landfill into a renowned paleontological site, ...

MUKAWA, Hokkaido--Fossils unearthed here are likely of an unknown dinosaur species that was an ancestor of birds, Hokkaido University and the town of Mukawa announced on Jan. 6. The fossilized ...

A man went missing in a Utah sand dune park after he bought ... The man usually brings a green four-wheeler, but since it wasn’t found at his truck his family believes he might have left on ...

Discovered 25 years ago, a 444-million-year-old marine arthropod fossil stumped paleontologists ... eventually becoming entombed and fossilized in Soom Shale—a band of silts and clays located ...

KANAB, Utah (KUTV) — The body of a 67-year-old Ivins ... Authorities searched Mower’s vehicle but found nothing unusual. Deputies also spoke with nearby recreationists, none of whom had ...

We know what fossils look like. For example ... With the exception of those found in environments particularly adept at preservation, the soft tissues degrade over time and all we’re left ...

So far, the only known Denisovan fossils include partial jawbones, a few teeth and part of a finger bone found in caves in Siberia and Tibet. Some scientists believe fossils found in a cave in ...

An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans, scientists reported Thursday. Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an ...

Denisovans, a long-dead cousin of modern humans, are represented by only a handful of fossils. And yet traces of their genes can be found in present-day people, including in Asian, Melanesian and ...

A fossilized jawbone found off the coast of Taiwan more than ... Pinning down an exact age for the Penghu fossil is challenging because scientists do not have samples of the sediment it was ...

A 190,000- to 10,000-year-old fossilized mandible found in the Penghu Channel ... “Recent discoveries and reanalyses of fossil specimens, together with the application of molecular techniques and new ...

Shale boss Bryan Sheffield, the son of Pioneer Natural Resources founder Scott Sheffield, appears to have called on America’s shale drillers to cut drilling immediately, as Brent crude flirts ...