A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature is one of the earliest ancestors of a group known as arthropods, which ...

The only known hominid fossils of that age in that location are those of Lucy and her kind, the small-brained but upright-walking hominids classified as Australopithecus afarensis. Some analysts ...

Some critics say that it would have been impossible for a hominid with a brain the size of an orange to make the sophisticated tools found at Ling Bua Cave—let alone hunt with them—and that ...

Apr. 8, 2025 — The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be explained by a worsening fossil ... Apr. 1, 2025 — More ...

Timeworn Tot The oldest known fossil of a child hominid has been found in Ethiopia. The 3-year-old female Australopithecus afarensis (the same species as the adult fossil "Lucy") lived about 3.3 ...

The study is ... New Species Revealed After 25 Years of Study on 'Inside Out' Fossil -- And Named After Discoverer's Mum Mar. 26, 2025 — A new species of fossil is 444 million years-old with ...

Discovered in Northern China, it sheds new light to reshape our understanding of human evolution. The fossils, dating back nearly 200,000 years in Eastern Asia, were discovered by Professor ...

Rare gemstone fossil discovery sheds light on ancient cephalopods before the age of dinosaurs.