Now, archaeologists have studied two more teeth and an adult’s partial upper arm bone found at Mata Menge. From these fossils, “we could finally determine the body size” of this hobbit ancestor, lead ...

shedding light on a group of mysterious “Hobbit” humans that lived thousands of years ago. The “astonishingly small” limb, believed to be around 700,000 years old, was found in the island of Flores in ...

It was a new species of hominin, now known as Denisovans, who were the first human cousins identified only by their DNA.

The original hobbit fossils — named by the discoverers after characters in “The Lord of the Rings” — date back to between 60,000 and 100,000 years ago. The new fossils were excavated at a ...

A team of researchers that includes a Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine professor says it has uncovered new ...

The Hell Creek Formation in what's now the Dakotas, Montana, and Wyoming was once home to some of the world's most beloved ...

The museum hosted an event the following month to give names to fossils found in the area. Based on the protruding part of the upper jaw bones, museum officials determined the item brought in by ...

Researchers have discovered new fossils of the extinct Caribbean monkey Antillothrix bernensis in the Dominican Republic. The ...

The evolutionary adaptations that allowed ancient pterosaurs to grow to enormous sizes have been pinpointed for the first time by paleontologists in the Center for Paleobiology and Biosphere ...

Sep. 18, 2024 — A researcher has found evidence that the treeless, rugged, grassland landscape of the Falkland Islands was home to a lush, diverse rainforest up to ...

Relatively few fossils of early turtles have been found, leaving it a mystery how the creature developed its unique features, and even which ancestors they evolved from. A research published in ...