Discovery of Our Distant Ancestor Fossil Reveals They Were Only a ‘Meter Tall’, Easily Preyed Upon by Leopards Humans have ...

TEMPE, AZ (AZFamily) — Fifty years ago, Arizona State Professor Donald Johanson discovered the Lucy fossil skeleton ... now over 500 specimens of her species,” Johanson said.

That’s about half an inch shorter than the famous “Lucy” and 6 inches ... that represented by the new fossils — were the unfortunate victims of predators, it would be completely unfair to conclude ...

They are, in the opinion of no less an authority than the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, “the world’s most important animal fossils”—not Tyrannosaurus rex, not Lucy, but a collection of ...

A fossil leopard’s lower jawbone next to a skull ... making it even smaller than adults from other diminutive early human species, including those represented by the famous ‘Lucy’ (Australopithecus ...

NASA’s Lucy mission is about to fly past asteroid Donaldjohanson, a strange, elongated rock in the main belt. While this ...

A tiny fossil preserved in 16 million-year-old amber revealed an extinct Caribbean species that mastered the art of ...

For years, a mysterious fossil specimen defied categorization, until one paleontologist made a surprising discovery.

A new species of fossil from 444 million years ago that has perfectly preserved insides has been affectionately named "Sue" after its discoverer's mom. The result of 25 years of work by a ...

Scientists have discovered a fossil that appears to belong to an unknown species. Found in a remote location, this fossil doesn’t match any previously identified life forms. Recent studies of ...