Their fossilized bones and teeth have been found in numerous countries, including a complete 183-million-year-old skeleton which was unearthed in the Posidonia Shale deposit in southern Germany.

The 3.18-million-year-old remains of Lucy, one of the oldest human ancestors, will be displayed in Europe for the first time ever.

The Ocucaje Desert in southern Peru has long been a goldmine for paleontologists, revealing fossils that provide glimpses ...

The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...

More than a quarter million beads found in a tomb with female skeletons were used to decorate the women's ceremonial dresses, ...

Discovered half a century ago in Ethiopia, the bones of Lucy, the most famous of the Australopithecus, are set to be ...

The 3.2-million-year-old set of bones, discovered in 1974, was once considered as belonging to the earliest known member of ...

The fossilized skeleton of the 1.1-meter-tall ... of "Toumai" in Chad in 2001 – a skull dated to six or seven million years old. In a 2016 study, researchers said Lucy had strong upper arms ...

The fossilised skeleton of the 1.1-metre-tall (3.6 feet ... "Toumai" in Chad in 2001 -- a skull dated to six or seven million years old. In a 2016 study, researchers said Lucy had strong upper ...

The fossilized 69-million-year-old skull of the oldest known modern ... The skull features are consistent with clues from elsewhere in the skeleton, suggesting that Vegavis used its feet for ...