Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...

A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of our earliest ancestors, and uncovers how ...

Recent discoveries at Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park have unearthed the fossilized neck bone of the Cryodrakon. Examination under a microscope and micro-CT scans revealed a conical puncture ...

Ancient finds shape how we view history - and the world. Click or swipe through to see some of those discoveries as they're uncovered. A marble statue of a woman believed to be more than 2000 ...

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told New Scientist’s Catherine Brahic in 2007. “This fossil would have been all the more striking in such a diminutive landscape.” When scientists first uncovered these fossils in 1843 ...

UPPER PALÆOLITHIC CULTURE IN “UPPER CAVE” SEDIMENTS A DETAILED account of the results of the Choukoutien excavations up to May 1933 has already been presented in our memoir "Fossil Man hi ...

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Aspiring paleontologists should head straight for Lyme Regis, widely hailed as England’s fossil capital thanks to the discoveries ... what you’ve found. The Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre ...

Late last year we featured the story of Lyme Regis town crier Richard Fox, who became something of a novelty in New Orleans in 1982 ... a life time collector of postcards and photographs of both ...