A study of 7000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: as ...

Almost all bones will not be preserved, and there’s nothing special about the finger bone in terms of how hard it is. It just got lucky,” said H ...

A blast from the past! Archeologists unearthed fossilized bone fragments in a cave in Spain that may represent a previously unknown species — making it the oldest-known human fossil ever ...

Archeologists unearthed fossilized bone fragments in a cave in Spain that may represent a previously unknown species — making ...

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.

(CNN) — 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.

Reuters, March 30, Fact Check-Images show fossilized remains of large sloth, not human giant Thank you for supporting our journalism. You can subscribe to our print edition, ad-free app or ...

Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull.

Denisovans, Neanderthals, and early Homo sapiens coexisted and even interbred, leaving behind traces of their DNA in modern humans. In fact, many people today carry small amounts of Denisovan DNA, a ...

Skulls are typically the best type of fossilized remains to understand the appearance or form of an extinct hominin species.

A fragment of a face from a human ancestor is the oldest in Western Europe, according to the results of a new study published this week. The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone ...

He said petrification involves the replacement of the original material - bones, say, or wood - by silica, and it is "extremely doubtful that fleshy human remains would survive to be petrified." ...