Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fossil examples A new analysis of fossils found in a Spanish cave suggests Neanderthals were capable of abstract thought, before ...

An international team, involving researchers from the University of Seville, the Andalusian Institute of Earth Sciences in Granada and the University of Huelva, has identified the first fossilized ...

They were mammoth bones… until they weren’t. For more than 70 years, a pair of fossils in the collection of the University of Alaska Museum of the North (UAMN) was believed to have come from the Ice ...

Named Panthera pardus burgtonnae, the newly-identified leopard subspecies roamed Europe during the Eemian interglacial period and was far more heavily built than modern leopards.

The idea of a rapid human transformation, which supposedly turned our ancestors into modern beings around 50,000 years ago, ...

Timing is crucial when it comes to understanding the origins of humanity. Developing better dating techniques to discover the ages of key fossils will help scientists to discover how Homo sapiens and ...

Studying microscopic layers of dirt dug from the Tam Pà Ling cave site in northeastern Laos has provided a team of Flinders University archaeologists and their international colleagues further ...

The origin of primates / David Tab Rasmussen -- The earliest fossil primates and the evolution of prosimians / Herbert H. Covert -- Adapiformes: phylogeny and adaptation / Daniel L Gebo -- ...

A fascinating study uncovered a unique behaviour in ancient insects. Dating back to the Late Pleistocene, solitary bees used the bones of extinct mammals to create homes for their young. Researchers ...