For more than 70 years, what were thought to be mammoth fossils were tucked away in the archives of the University of Alaska ...

Fossils of a human ancestor from 773,000 years ago may be near the base of the Homo sapiens lineage, representing a common ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a mysterious human ancestor.

The architecture of fossilized bones possesses a chemical memory. Researchers have indeed identified molecular traces within ...

Dinosaur eggshells, once treated as background scenery in fossil digs, have turned out to be some of the most precise ...

New research shows that fossilized dinosaur eggshells can be used to help scientists more precisely date prehistoric nesting ...

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

The survival of Rio Grande cutthroat trout populations in segments of the Red River where they have been absent for decades ...

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 ...

Fossils can reveal far more than the shapes of ancient creatures. Molecules preserved inside old animal bones provide clues about past diseases, what those animals ate, and the climates they lived in.

Scientists have discovered that fossilized dinosaur eggshells can act as precise time clocks, unlocking ancient secrets.

Map showing potential migration routes of the human ancestor, Homo erectus, in Africa, Europe and Asia during the early Pleistocene. Key fossils of Homo erectus and the earlier Homo habilis species ...