A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the ...
The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.
A fossil plant smaller than a fingernail, collected more than a century ago from a Scottish rock bed, is reshaping the story ...
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Tiny bump on 7 million-year-old fossil suggests ancient ape walked upright — and might even be a human ancestor
The way Sahelanthropus tchadensis moved has long been debated. The discovery of a small bump on the front of the thigh bone ...
The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by researchers from La Trobe University in Australia and the University of Cambridge ...
The timing and location of our species’ emergence remain unclear for lack of evidence but a new discovery in Morocco brings ...
A trio of jawbones, a leg bone, and a handful of vertebrae and teeth found in Morocco may represent one of the last common ...
A team of anthropologists recently examined a collection of fossil hominin jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae that belong to ...
Fossils of a human ancestor from 773,000 years ago may be near the base of the Homo sapiens lineage, representing a common ...
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New Fossil Analysis Suggests This Seven-Million-Year-Old Primate Walked on Two Legs, Potentially Making It the Oldest Known Human Ancestor
Fresh findings about arm and leg bones advance the debate over whether Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, but not ...
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