While cleaning fossils retrieved from a cave on a Caribbean island, a ...
BBC – Darla Zelenitsky In recent years, paleontology has undergone something of a quiet revolution—one not sparked by fresh field excavations, but by ...
Two partial skeletons housed in a Mongolia museum were reexamined by ...
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A new study indicates the giant reptile Deinosuchus is not a close relative of modern alligators, as scientists previously thought, and it might have ...
Ralph Holloway, an anthropologist who pioneered the idea that changes in brain structure, and not just size, were critical in the evolution of humans, died ...
Discovered in Australia, the fossils represent a new species that lived during the Miocene epoch and highlight how iron-rich rock can protect specimens over ...
Humans, unlike most other species, have a knack for making tools.Six million years ago, our apelike ancestors probably smashed nuts with rocks or caught ...