The 2-million-year-old partial skeleton may even represent the oldest example of H. habilis discovered so far. It includes a ...

An artificial island of sand dredged from Indonesia's seafloor has accidentally revealed evidence of a long-lost sunken world, inhabited by early humans. Scattered across the newly created island, ...

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

Contrary to popular depictions of bee nests as large, intricate hives that hang from trees, the majority of bee species — about 90% — are actually solitary and build their nests in the ground or ...

For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up mostly as pieces of lizard jaws and snake vertebrae. Exactly why these parts survive as fossils ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? A jawbone fossil from a previously unknown hominin was finally identified as ...

The only known juvenile Ceratosaurus fossil has smashed estimates at Sotheby’s New York’s natural history auction today, fetching a whopping $30.5 million against a presale high estimate of $6 million ...

The global fossil record of squamates, which includes lizards, mosasaurs, snakes, and amphisbaenians (A) is overwhelmingly incomplete, with most fossil species containing less than 20% of the totality ...