In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...
Dr. David Schwimmer, an expert on the giant North American crocodilian genus Deinosuchus and a Columbus State University ...
Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...
A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.
The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History has added a new, rare fossil to its collection: a dome-shaped skull of a ...
When researchers learned the fossils were merely 1,900 to 2,700 years old—which would be the youngest woolly mammoth fossils ...
While cleaning fossils retrieved from a cave on a Caribbean island, a researcher noticed something strange in the hollow ...
A funding crisis at the Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, N.Y., could scatter ...
UChicago paleontologists use CT scanning and simulations to show how a 250-million-year-old mammal predecessor could hear ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ian writes on fossil energies, climate, and transition to renewables. Fossil electricity is electricity produced from gas-fired or ...