That sentiment stems from a new paper published in Current Biology which posits that dinosaur fossils older than we’ve ever ...

To account for the numerous gaps in the fossil record, they treated the parts of the world where fossils have not been ...

Study Reveals Remains of Very First Dinosaurs on Earth May Be Buried Deep Beneath the Sahara Desert and Amazon Rainforest A ...

Proving that the traces actually are an example of the planet's earliest life is not easy, however. Previously discovered "fossils" dating to the same period turned out to be the remains of inorganic ...

The Mistaken Point fossils, going back 570 million years, are the earliest evidence on Earth of large, biologically complex beings. There are now more than 50 different Ediacaran forms known ...

The fossil skeleton is thought to be more than 20 million years old, making it the earliest fossil pinniped -- the taxonomic name for seals, sea lions and walruses -- yet discovered, they report in ...

But Gen Suwa, an anthropologist at the University of Tokyo who led the new project, told Live Science that doubts about the Ushikawa fossils were first raised in the late 1980s, and had continued ...

Scientists have described about 250,000 different fossil species, yet that is a small fraction of those that lived in the past. The oldest fossils are remains of marine organisms that populated ...

New research suggests that the earliest dinosaurs may have originated in equatorial regions of Gondwana, encompassing the Amazon, Congo Basin, and the Sahara Desert. Fossils dating back 230 million ...

A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a ... Nov. 13, 2024 — A new study finds that the disturbance-demanding plant species oak ...

Researchers say they have identified a new species of ancient hominin, Homo juluensis, that could help solve another big ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence showing a hominin presence in Europe, half-a-million years earlier than previously thought ...