A fossilized foot discovered in Ethiopia and left unclassified for over a decade has now been linked to a little-known human ...

An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

Learn how microscopic fossils reveal that tiny seafloor organisms were already feeding and recycling nutrients soon after one ...

Sponges are among Earth's most ancient animals, but exactly when they evolved has long puzzled scientists. Genetic ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

A recent fossil discovery is offering new insights into what pterosaurs actually ate, challenging long-held assumptions about these ancient rulers of the skies. In a study published in the ...

Learn how fossil evidence shows that ceratopsians lived across Europe during the Late Cretaceous, challenging long-held ...

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 are providing a deeper understanding of the emergence of Homo sapiens.

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils found in Romania hint that hominins left Africa nearly two million years ...

The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by ...