Officials spot portions of an ice age skull in a mine, and take the help of the miners to unearth the 'perfectly preserved' fossil.

And the fossils were pouring out of the ground. And almost everything we found was something new. For a period of about six days, we were finding a new species of animal every day.

Hundreds of Neanderthal fossils give us a good idea of their appearance, lives and relationships, but so little is known about Denisovans that they still don’t have an official scientific name ...

A complete and “perfectly preserved” Ice Age horse skull fossil was unearthed at a Hester Creek placer mine in Canada’s Klondike region of the Yukon territory.

A complete and “perfectly preserved” Ice Age horse skull fossil was unearthed at a Hester Creek placer mine in Canada’s Klondike region of the Yukon territory.

A partial skull of a 10-foot-tall ground sloth, Megalonyx jeffersonii, was discovered in Ellis County, Kansas, providing new insights into the animal's distribution and geological history in the ...

The cast of the skull of Nigersaurus. The fossil skull of Nigersaurus was one of the first dinosaur skulls to be digitally reconstructed from CT scans. Photograph by Ira Block, Nat Geo Image ...

A complete and “perfectly preserved” Ice Age horse skull fossil was unearthed at a Hester Creek placer mine in Canada’s Klondike region of the Yukon territory.

As such, they have left a rich fossil record, including conspicuous and often very large skulls and teeth that litter the ground where Karoo rocks are exposed.

This week, however, a 146,000-year-old skull dredged out of a well in China in 2018 may just be a key missing piece to this cryptic evolutionary puzzle.

A partial skull of a 10-foot-tall ground sloth, Megalonyx jeffersonii, was discovered in Ellis County, Kansas, providing new insights into the animal’s distribution and geological history in … ...

Science recap: This week’s discoveries include new clues from the fossil skull of a mysterious human species By CNN Newsource Published June 21, 2025 9:00 AM ...