Then, one maverick scientist had the controversial idea to look for DNA not in fossils or frozen ancient tissue – but in the soil. Hunt for the Oldest DNA follows the scientists deciphering the ...

Chinese scientists have discovered dozens of human fossils dating back 300,000 years, which are the earliest ones found in East Asia in terms of the evolution process towards Homo sapiens, the species ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have discovered the oldest-known fossil of a giant tadpole that wriggled around over 160 million years ago. The new fossil, found in Argentina, surpasses the previous ...

But which are the oldest? Let’s take a look. The following list is not exhaustive, and some fossils that are older than some or all of the list entries may have been discovered since the time of ...

The billionaire Kenneth C. Griffin, who bought the stegosaurus fossil for $44.6 million, is lending it to the American Museum of Natural History in New York for four years. By Zachary Small and ...

“This is where we code hundreds of anatomical features in Cryptovaranoides and other modern and fossil lizards, as well as various archosauromorphs. “We ran the analysis time after time, and it gave ...

Researchers in Arizona say they have unearthed the oldest gun ever found in the continental United States. The bronze cannon, or wall gun, is associated with the first European expedition of the ...

A story perpetuated in some social media circles and fringe websites claims that 600 million-year-old fossils belonging to tiny humanoids have been found in Antarctica. This is an internet hoax ...

by combining the information from the coprolites with climate data and information from other fossils: plants, bite marks, vomit, footprints and bones. "The research material was collected over a ...

AN ANCIENT lizard dating back 205million years has been confirmed to be the "world's oldest" in a fresh study ... specimen since the first study on the fossil was published in 2022.

He became the world's oldest man in April following the death of 114-year-old Venezuelan Juan Vicente Perez. "His last day was surrounded by music and love," the family said in a statement, also ...