1+ day, 14+ min ago 1.6-Million-Year-Old Fossil Combines Homo habilis Face With Homo erectus Brow The skull had the brow of a descendant but the face of an ancestor. When researchers finished reconstructing the DAN5/P1 cranium from Ethiopia's Afar region, dated to between 1.6 and 1.5 million years…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago MILAN (AP) " A wildlife photographer stumbled upon one of the oldest and largest known collections of dinosaur footprints, dating back about 210 million years to the Triassic Period, high in an Italian national park near the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympic venue…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago A mysterious fossil foot discovered in Ethiopia more than a decade ago has now been linked to its most likely owner, and the revelation adds an important twist to the story of how our ancient relatives lived. The foot probably…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago According to a statement released by the Spanish National Research Centre for Human Evolution (CENIEH), Ana Mateos and Jes's Rodr'guez and their colleagues think that scavenging for carrion was vital to the survival of early hominins. It had been previously…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago Artist's impression of Spicomellus afer. Credit: Matt Dempsey Research on fossils reveals that ankylosaurs' iconic tail weapons evolved much earlier than scientists had previously believed. The world's most unusual dinosaur is even stranger than scientists realized" A new study published…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago A well-preserved Caenagnathid dinosaur, affectionately known as Spike, is expected to headline Christie's inaugural "Groundbreakers: Icons of Our Time" auction in London on December 11. At 68 million years old and counting, Spike is one of the most complete specimens of its…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago Alligator gars: putting the "gar" in gargantuan for 100 million years. Dr Solomon David, AKA The Gar Guy, said it's the largest alligator gar he's ever seen in the field. Image courtesy of Dr Solomon David The Mississippi River floodplains are…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago Seventy-three million years ago, Alaska's ancient rivers flowed with the early ancestors of today's salmon and pike. Researchers have identified three new species, including Sivulliusalmo alaskensis, the oldest known salmonid. Credit: Shutterstock Scientists have discovered the world's oldest salmon in…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago Genetic and archaeological evidence now points to Aboriginal Australians arriving around 50,000 years ago, later than once believed. Credit: Shutterstock A new study by a Utah anthropologist, based on genetic evidence, concludes that the colonizers of Sahul arrived later than the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago The hoof, preserved in section as a very thin clay layer, caps the end toe bone in the foot of an adult mummy of the duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus annectens. For the first time ever, we've been able to prove that…...