When researchers learned the fossils were merely 1,900 to 2,700 years old—which would be the youngest woolly mammoth fossils ...

The Salawusu site in Ordos, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Photo: IC. Featuring more than 400 animal fossils, a new ...

The items were taken in the late 19th century from what was then called the Dutch East Indies. Indonesia had been trying to ...

The newly identified fossil is significant because it provides a long-sought morphological link between the earliest known ...

The discovery in the Stelvio National Park was striking for the sheer number of footprints and the location near the Swiss ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

Scientists in China have discovered the first hatchling fossil of an armored dinosaur, offering rare insight into its early development.

A cave in the Dominican Republic concealed thousands of years worth of animal bones that had been turned into nests by ...

After decades of excavation and debate, a new analysis argues that Little Foot — one of the most complete hominin fossils ...

Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...

Thousands of dinosaur footprints dating back 210 million years have been found in a national park in northern Italy. The ...

Scientists generally agree that Little Foot belongs to the Australopithecus genus, but disagree on which species. Some say it ...