This week, a fossilized skull offers new clues about a mysterious prehistoric human species, astronomers unlock missing ...

South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many ...

Science breakthrough as fossil pushes back evolution timeline by 17 million years. Story by Max Channon • 4mo. A fossilized jaw bone has pushed the evolutionary timeline of mammals by a jaw ...

Scientists were finally given access to a remarkable Archaeopteryx fossil that’s allowed them to better understand exactly how the earliest known bird could fly.

Learn all about fossils with these interactive learning resources for KS2 Science students aged 7-11 from BBC Bitesize.

A recent announcement that a fossil discovery in India was just residue from a bee’s nest was a reminder of the importance of science correcting itself. By Joshua Sokol At its best, paleontology ...

Paleontologists sifted through thousands of 3 to 3.7 million year-old fossils in New Zealand, which also included great white shark teeth and the spine of an extinct sawshark.

Haul of Fossil Fish Pushes Back the Origin of Teeth and Jaws The unexpected finds illustrate life during a critical and little-understood time period. Riley Black - Science Correspondent.

Fossils have been recovered in a number of strange and surprising places including museum drawers and deep in present day deserts.More than a century ago, a 319-million-year-old fossilized fish ...

The fossil was unearthed in 2012 by farmers in the Chinese province of Liaoning and acquired by Gang Han of the Hainan Vocational University of Science and Technology, a co-author of the study.

During the Blitz of 1941 in London, the fossil was obliterated by a German bomb. No copies were known to exist. But while conducting research on other fossils at Yale University’s Peabody Museum ...