Iron Age teeth fossils reveal diversity of diet of ancient Italians - Findings offer strong evidence that ancient Italians ...

Part of the collection will be housed locally in the Huasteco Regional Museum AC, located in Ciudad Valles, the Huasteca's ...

An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...

The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

A fossil bone found in a sand pit in the 1980s near the Green River has turned out to be much older than originally suspected. It dates back to the Ice Age. The shin bone comes from a species of camel ...

Layers of rock can tell the story of life on Earth, but only if you know when each chapter was written. For many dinosaur sites, that date has been little more than a rough guess. Now, a team of ...

Paleontologists have revealed a previously unknown species of early bird following the discovery of a remarkable "one-of-a-kind" fossil. The prehistoric species, named Navaornis hestiae, lived ...

Long ago, approximately 2.6 million years ago during the Ice Age, prehistoric animals roamed throughout the U.S., including Louisiana. Prehistoric megafauna like the mastodon, which were large, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Across the world, eerie "death pits" have entombed ...

Metabolism quietly governs every living body. It shapes how organisms grow, reproduce, heal, and age. Because metabolism links closely to body size, temperature, and diet, it also sets limits on how ...