Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may help scientists resolve a long-standing mystery: Who came before us? Three jawbones, including one from a child, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fossil quarry hall at Dinosaur National Monument in Utah, July 6, 2013. (David Fulmer via Flickr CC 2.0) Construction crews have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dinosaur figurines are displayed at the Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre during an exhibition featuring a rock containing ...

DENVER – Parking lot construction at Colorado’s Dinosaur National Monument unearthed new fossils last fall, the first discovery at the monument in more than 100 years, according to the National Park ...

Researchers have discovered a fossil in Morocco of a dinosaur species that roamed the plains of northern Africa at least 165 million years ago, featuring a dangerous tail and "extreme" armor. A group ...

The Sunda Shelf is home to a rich Pleistocene hominin fossil record, including specimens of Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonensis, Homo erectus, and archaic Homo. Much of the Sunda Shelf is submerged. At ...

It’s one thing to find fossils in a remote field, sandwiched between millennia-old mountains and dried up riverbeds, and quite another to find them in the midst of sprawling, hypermodern concrete ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. The theory suggests that fossils of Protoceratops – a species of ...

In a groundbreaking discovery in Brunei, scientists have found two-million-year-old fossils of Dryobalanops rappa—an endangered tropical tree that still lives today. The find marks the first fossil ...

One of three jawbones excavated from Thomas Quarry in Morocco that is 773,000 years old. - Hamza Mehimdate/Programme Préhistoire de Casablanca Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood ...