The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...
This prehistoric quadruped discovered on the coast of Peru was similar to a modern-day otter or beaver — except it was 13 ...
Sites in China, Russia, India, and Pakistan also suggest the presence of hominin species dating back to 2–2.6 million years ago. “Even if we have traces of intelligent primates in Romania or ...
The new study revealed that the ancient jaw named SK 15 was originally unearthed in 1949 in a South African cave known as ...
Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies.
When the Paranthropus roamed the earth, there were also other species alive and closer related to humans than chimps. Our genus, Homo came about arround 2.8 million years ago, while our species ...
Roughly 2.5 million years ago, the australopithecines are ... 3.9 to 3 million years ago - Lucy, a member of the species Australopithecus afarensis, is alive. It is believed she is a descendent ...
Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...