During the late middle Pleistocene, between 300 and 400 thousand years ago, at least three ancient elephant relatives died ...

Earliest evidence of elephant butchery discovered in India Rare fossils show ancient human activity in Kashmir Valley Stone tools used to extract marrow from ancient elephant bones ...

But last year, a private fossil hunter named Courtney Travanini made a rare find in northeastern Texas: jaw fragments from an adult G. alabamaensis, with teeth still attached. Travanini discovered ...

Rare fossils taken into Estonian illegally were seized by the Tax and Customs Board (MTA) and are now in the care of the ...

Anchor] Fossils of human footprints on the coast of Sagye-ri, Seogwipo, Jeju, were found for the first time in Asia and the ...

These fossils offer valuable insights into past biodiversity and conservation efforts. By studying rare fossils of jaws and other skull parts of a long-extinct Caribbean monkey, a team of researchers ...

A rare, nearly complete fossil of an extinct North American porcupine helped me and my colleagues solve a decades-long debate about how the modern North American porcupine evolved from its ancestors.

Researchers say they uncovered new evidence documenting the anatomy and ecology of an extinct primate once found on ...

What seemed to be an ordinary renovation turned out to be an extraordinary discovery when a trove of ancient fossils was uncovered. There are millions of fossils that make up those excavated since ...

The metasequoia, also known as “a living fossil,” was named 80 years ago by botanist Shigeru Miki (1901-1974), who taught at Kyoto Imperial University, present-day Kyoto University.

The opportunity to study this many fossils of South American and Caribbean monkeys is rare, Cooke says. Only one other species of extinct South American monkey, Homunculus patagonicus (a long ...