Bones From 773,000 Years Ago Capture Human Evolution at a Crossroads In A Nutshell Ancient African fossils dated to around ...

These radioactive elements decay at known rates, effectively acting as a built-in clock that reveals precisely when the eggs were buried millions of years ago. This natural timekeeping mechanism has ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

Researchers have discovered fossil remains in Morocco that may represent one of the earliest stages of the human lineage, dating back 773,000 years ago. The findings, published today in the Nature ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

For decades, two small bone pieces sat quietly in a museum drawer in Alaska, labelled as mammoth remains and largely ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s greatest extinction. Tens of thousands of fossils reveal fully aquatic ...

Morocco provide new evidence on human evolution, revealing an African lineage near the origin of Homo sapiens.

Scientists refine the timeline of sponge origins, showing soft-bodied ancestors likely evolved later than some chemical ...

Ancient fossils from Moroccan caves, dated with rare precision, offer rare insight into early human evolution.

A research team at the British Museum, led by Nick Ashton and Rob Davis, reports evidence that ancient humans could make and ...

Researchers have uncovered thousands of preserved metabolic molecules inside fossilized bones millions of years old, offering ...