Fresh findings about arm and leg bones advance the debate over whether Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, but not ...

The Fossil Cabin, located on U.S. Route 30 near Medicine Bow, Wyoming. The structure's walls have dinosaur fossils excavated ...

The oldest fossilized remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that ...

Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago are providing a deeper understanding of the emergence of Homo sapiens.

Using 3D technology and other methods, the team identified Sahelanthropus’s femoral tubercle, which is the point of ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago unearthed in a Moroccan cave are providing a deeper understanding of ...

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the ...

South Africa and Nigeria promised to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from oil and coal. But instead they’re planning to ...

Earth’s first sponges may have been ghostly, soft-bodied pioneers—ancient animals that evolved long before their skeletons ...

An ancient shark older than forests still glides through deep oceans today. Its strange teeth, slow life cycle, and ...