What’s more, the Moroccan site is in northwest Africa, far from the sites in East and South Africa that have yielded many of Africa’s other hominin fossils. To paleoanthropologists ...

Edited by Mark H. Thiemens, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, and approved September 23, 2015 (received for review June 1, 2015) ...

For more than a decade, paleontologists have speculated about a single fossil that preserves skeletons of two of the world’s most famous dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops. Not only ...

In 1971, Lawrence Loendorf, an archaeologist who had heard that there were bones in the cave, collected a few mammal fossils and a red jasper knife at the base of the pit. Other than the knife and ...

Except it contains many of the world’s best-preserved, most diverse fossils. The defunct mine’s location in Grundy County is one of several sites spanning six counties that belong to the Mazon ...

Newly discovered feathers were crucial to how Archaeopteryx was able to fly. Archaeopteryx is the fossil that helped confirm Darwin’s theory of evolution. It is the oldest known fossil bird and ...

Archaeopteryx is often referred to as the fossil that proved Darwin right – it links today’s birds to ancient dinosaurs. Even though the first specimen was discovered over 160 years ago, this iconic ...

AURORA, N.C. — The 2025 Fossil Festival in Aurora captivated attendees with its unique attractions, including the popular shark tooth hunting activity. The annual event, which draws thousands to ...

Ice Age fossils found at highway dig TxDOT says megafauna remains are not uncommon for the area, in Lubbock, which is in a region that's home to many remnants of Ice Age lakes called "playas." ...

Skull fragments and other fossil remains emerged from among more than 6,000 animal fossils found in some 177 million cubic feet of sand and sandstones that were dredged up in 2014–15 during ...

Fossils discovered beneath the Madura Strait in Indonesia reveal a previously unknown population of Homo erectus inhabiting the submerged Sundaland region. The findings, including over 6,000 ...

Mystery of 'very odd' elasmosaur finally solved: fiercely predatory marine reptile is new species Date: May 23, 2025 Source: Taylor & Francis Group Summary: A group of fossils of elasmosaurs ...