A team of anthropologists recently examined a collection of fossil hominin jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae that belong to hominins who probably lived very close in time to our species’ last common ...

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PaleoCris and I teamed up with our friend Rick to explore a Florida creek site we rarely get to hunt. The trip paid off with colorful shark teeth, juvenile Megalodon teeth, and some incredibly rare ...

Look down at the rainforest floor. Rotting flowers shift under the assault of tiny petal-eating beetles. Vividly colored ...

Long before big cats, terror birds reigned as apex predators. Here’s how these flightless birds hunted, and why they went ...

These "total monsters of fishes" are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest ...

The fossilized lower jawbones of two adults and a toddler, as well as teeth, a thigh bone, and some vertebrae, were unearthed in a cave in Casablanca, Morocco.

Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago are providing a deeper understanding of the emergence of Homo sapiens.

Between roughly 600,000 and one million years ago, Africa’s fossil record goes strangely quiet. Genetic evidence suggests that this is precisely when the ancestors of Homo sapiens split from the ...

A 19-year-old Canadian woman found dead in Australia was surrounded by dingoes with “markings” indicating the wild dogs tampered with her body.

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...