A 17- to 18-million-year-old ape fossil discovered in Egypt is challenging long-held beliefs about where the ancestors of ...

In 1985, he remembered handling a 324 million-year-old fossil. It arrived at the museum from west Texas. At the time, the ...

Was it a sea-lamander? Scientists have discovered the first-ever fossil evidence of sea-dwelling amphibians, potentially ...

For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the small, mountainous country surrounded by South Africa. In contrast, our ...

More than a million years ago, on a hot savanna teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake Turkana in Kenya, two completely different species of hominins may have passed ...

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. A new study from researchers at Utrecht ...

Newly discovered insect fossils are so small they can barely be seen by the human eye but have been preserved in an 'extraordinary' way. Newly discovered insect fossils are so small they can barely be ...

After a 12-minute bidding war among six contenders, a rare specimen named Jodi just narrowly missed the auction record for a ...

U.S. National Science Foundation-funded researchers recently found a fossil that led to the discovery of a brand-new dinosaur species, Lokiceratops rangiformis. This horned dinosaur, an earlier ...

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Pokémon Korea has revealed the detailed schedule for the special exhibition, Pokémon Fossil Museum. The Pokémon Fossil Museum ...