A Manatee County utilities crew digging a trench for a waterline discovered a fossilized claw from a Jefferson’s ground sloth. The fossil dates back to more than 11,000 years ago. The fossil will one ...

Fossils can reveal traces of an ancient world, but their exact age is not always easy to discern. Palaeontologists have traditionally relied on a range of methods to date fossil sites, some more ...

“This study demonstrates that eggshell biocalcite from non-avian dinosaurs, birds, and other egg-laying vertebrates has the ...

A 410-million-year-old fossil of a giant prehistoric organism which once loomed over north-east Scotland has been added to the collections of National Museums Scotland (NMS). The example of ...

Where did our species first emerge? Fossils discovered in Morocco dating back more than 773,000 years bolster the theory that Homo sapiens originally appeared in Africa, scientists said in a study ...

Through the analysis of quartz gravel samples from ground strata, a China-US research team has recently pushed back the date ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Prototaxites fossil was discovered in a sedimentary deposit near the village of Rhynie in Aberdeenshire [Neil Hanna] A ...