Recent discoveries of fossilized footprints have provided intriguing evidence that suggests pre-human species were more advanced than previously believed. These findings offer fascinating insight into ...

They report in the journal Nature that two ancient animal bones from Ethiopia show signs of being butchered and smashed by stone tools about 3.4 million years ago. That's about 800,000 years earlier ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

These radioactive elements decay at known rates, effectively acting as a built-in clock that reveals precisely when the eggs were buried millions of years ago. This natural timekeeping mechanism has ...

Creepy collector she is not; Cooke's quest for canines, incisors, and molars is driven by a desire to better understand Earth's past. Give this intrepid paleontologist a fossilized tooth, and there's ...