A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has removed references to fossil fuels from its online page about climate change causes.

Newly found 1.5-million-year-old fossils reveal 'Paranthropus boisei' had dexterous hands and feet, showing it was more skilled and upright than previously thought.

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

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

A rare 520-million-year-old fossil with its internal organs still intact has been found. The fossilized sample — a tiny larva ...

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

Newfound fossils in modern-day Ethiopia suggest that the mysterious foot belonged to a recently named species, Australopithecus deyiremeda. The finding could alter the story of human evolution ...

A remarkably preserved horseshoe crab fossil from North America offers rare insight into some of the earliest known cases of ...

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

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