Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several fossils with possible cut marks from Grăunceanu, Romania. Briana Pobiner Looking again through the magnifying lens at the ...

A paper appearing today in Nature Communications reports the discovery of extremely rare early human fossils from the Indonesian island of Flores, including an astonishingly small adult limb bone.

On February 13, Jason Howery, a fossil hunter in Missouri, stunned viewers after hauling a massive prehistoric bone from a ...

The 225-million-year-old fossil that changes everything we know about dinosaurs ...

Scientists say a teenager and her father discovered fossilized pieces of a jawbone that belonged to an ancient marine reptile — perhaps the largest ichthyosaur ever found. Millions of years ago, giant ...

Millions of years ago much of Mississippi was underwater and dugongs, sometimes called sea cows, roamed the warm coastal ...

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A dinosaur skull displayed in Montana holds a broken Tyrannosaurus tooth lodged in its face, revealing a violent encounter 66 million years ago. Did this fossil capture a predator’s final strike?

When Ruby Reynolds and her father found a fossil on an English beach, they didn’t know it belonged to an 82-foot ichthyosaur that swam during the days of the dinosaurs. By Kate Golembiewski In 1811, a ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Briana Pobiner, Smithsonian Institution; Sabrina Curran, Ohio University, and Virgil ...