Nine cut marks on the fossilized shin bone of a Homo sapien ancestor may indicate that early human relatives may have been cannibals who butchered and ate each other. Researchers from the ...

Nine cut marks on a fossilized shin bone suggest that ancient human relatives butchered and possibly ate one another 1.45 million years ago, according to a new study. The fossilized tibia was ...

An examination of certain bones -- a tibia (leg bone ... In 1976, members of a team led by Mary Leakey discovered the fossilized footprints of human ancestors in Laetoli, Africa.

An island eroding into the Chesapeake Bay offers tantalizing clues about when and how humans first made their way into North ...

And human bones are the best evidence excavators can hope to find. But humans also leave behind coprolites, or fossilized feces. Thanks to the extremely dry environment inside Oregon’s Paisley ...

To celebrate International Museum Day, learn how experts protect the museum’s most dramatic displays from dust bunnies and ...

impressions of feathers near the bones, and fossilized feathers themselves. However, scientists haven't been entirely certain of the details of the evolutionary transition from having scaly skin ...

The study of how life evolved would be impossible if not for the history that is told in the fossilized remains going ... and mainly the hard parts -- teeth, bones, shells, or wood -- were preserved.

“When people think of raptor dinosaurs, they most likely think of those in the 'Jurassic Park' movies – human-sized ... raises hopes Finding fossilized bones would provide researchers with ...

The bones of at least 26 Ice Age animals—including ... evidence of pre-Clovis occupation in North America: fossilized human feces. Fossilized feces from a bobcat or coyote (lower left) and ...

When we think of fossils it is usually of dinosaurs, or perhaps the beautiful spiral shape of an ammonite picked up on a ...