The enamel that forms the outer layer of our teeth might seem like an unlikely place to find clues about evolution. But it ...

which scientists initially assigned to an ancient relative of modern humans. But understanding the fossils’ true place in the human story required solidly dating the site, and that was a tricky ...

We looked at fossil teeth from hominins (humans and our closest extinct relatives) from the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, where we ...

We looked at fossil teeth from hominins (humans and our closest extinct relatives) from the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, where we ...

The enamel that forms the outer layer of our teeth might seem like an unlikely place to find clues about evolution. But it ...

It’s the smoking gun, or the steaming guts,” said a paleontologist from a team that also found that the sauropods didn’t chew ...

Fossils from Scotland’s East Kirkton Quarry are now dated to 346 million years ago, offering rare insight into vertebrate ...

A Cambrian fossil once thought to be a mollusk ancestor is now identified as a chancelloriid relative, reshaping ideas about ...

A fossilized colony of small burrowing reptiles that lived some 250 million years ago was recently found in South Africa.

Sauropods were the largest land-living animals of all time. Finding the traces of a sauropod’s last meal is nothing short of ...