A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the ...
A devastating ice age wiped out most marine life, yet new research reveals how this ancient disaster unexpectedly paved the ...
The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.
The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by researchers from La Trobe University in Australia and the University of Cambridge ...
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New Fossil Analysis Suggests This Seven-Million-Year-Old Primate Walked on Two Legs, Potentially Making It the Oldest Known Human Ancestor
Fresh findings about arm and leg bones advance the debate over whether Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, but not ...
A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.
Fossils of a human ancestor from 773,000 years ago may be near the base of the Homo sapiens lineage, representing a common ...
A trio of jawbones, a leg bone, and a handful of vertebrae and teeth found in Morocco may represent one of the last common ...
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