Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the ...

Scientists have recently unearthed fossils in Canada which are between 3.77 and 4.29 billion years old. If these fossils are truly signs of ancient life, they would be among the oldest evidence ...

The fossil droppings were scanned using synchrotron microtomography. This works in a similar way to a CT-scanner in a hospital but with much stronger x-ray beams, making it possible to image the ...

But one section of the fossil puzzle gave them trouble. Iron-rich stone surrounding the bones made it difficult to get good X-ray images. So the researchers decided to try another approach.

Fossils found in the stomach of a 100-million-year-old sauropod reveal that these dinosaurs didn't fully chew their food and relied on stomach microbes for digestion. A new study from Current ...

When you think of fossils, bones may be the first image that comes to mind. But for paleontologists, trace fossils like these can be even more exciting.

During the Blitz of 1941 in London, the fossil was obliterated by a German bomb. No copies were known to exist. But while conducting research on other fossils at Yale University’s Peabody Museum ...

A microscope image shows the surface of a Kapur Paya fossil leaf. Tiny pores called stomata and the outer skin cells of the leaf are visible, which helps scientists compare it to living trees.