As such, researchers at Cambridge University and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have been studying tiny ancient fossils ...

MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...

Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...

Scientists say microscopic magnetite fossils may have enabled an ancient creature to detect Earth’s magnetic field, offering ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have unearthed ancient magnetic fossils that suggest the existence of a long-lost ...

A 3.4-million-year-old fossil foot reveals that two early hominin species lived together - A. deyiremeda and A. afarensis.

They observed that the structure of tiny magnetic fields generated by the rotating electrons indicates that the organisms ...

What can fossil records teach scientists about ancient ecosystems and marine environments? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address ...

(CNN) — Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same ...

A mega-catalog of 1,231 fossils reveals that Homo was never a rare species in Omo-Turkana and rewrites the history of our ...

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a ...

When the remains of prehistoric creatures were discovered in Europe and the United States, it opened up a vociferous debate on the nature of time and the purpose of science. A lithograph illustrating ...