Fired by a political animus and what constitutes good science, the “Naledi Wars” show no immediate sign of abating.

If you think New Zealand is just about epic landscapes, hearty haka, and hobbits, think again. There’s a new quest afoot—and ...

If more specimens were to be found, with their heads and legs, we could be more certain about where this fossil fitted in the scheme of life. But the site where I found it has been covered in a ...

New discoveries in the Dominican Republic suggest sebecids roamed the Caribbean as recently as 4.5 million years ago, long ...

Mississippi is rich in fossils from creatures that lived long ago, and in recent years, many fascinating finds have turned up. In 2024, Sherry Couey of Rosedale found a part of a jaw from a saber ...

Ancient seashell fossils discovered in the southern province ... fossilised remains of various bivalves and gastropods were found. There were at least five different types of seashells ranging ...

A peculiar spiny fossil, once thought to represent one of the earliest mollusks, has now been conclusively reclassified by ...

you can dig and split shale for days and not find a single fossil! But we know there are some in there because of discoveries made previously. I found two specimens. The first one is complete but the ...

A complete Mixodectes pungens skeleton reveals it was a leaf-eating, tree-dwelling mammal closely related to primates and ...