Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...

Fossils can reveal traces of an ancient world, but their exact age is not always easy to discern. Palaeontologists have traditionally relied on a range of methods to date fossil sites, some more ...

Where did our species first emerge? Fossils discovered in Morocco dating back more than 773,000 years bolster the theory that Homo sapiens originally appeared in Africa, scientists said in a study ...

A 410-million-year-old fossil of a giant prehistoric organism which once loomed over north-east Scotland has been added to the collections of National Museums Scotland (NMS). The example of ...

A treasure trove of fossils from China shows that the Cambrian explosion may have been less explosive than scientists once ...

Discover one of Illinois’ most unexpected adventures: a former coal mine turned fossil-hunting hotspot with ancient finds, ...