(CNN) — Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same ...

Donald G. MacVicar Jr., 21-year-old Amherst senior and chemistry major, got the idea in a college bull session. After he tested it in the laboratory, MacVicar decided he had the answer to a problem ...

The only thing most of us know about fossils is probably from the second grade or from random TV shows over the years. In depth knowledge of all the different types of fossils has usually been ...

Palaeontologists are helping resolve the evolution and ecology of Odaraia, a taco-shaped marine animal that lived during the Cambrian period. Fossils reveal Odaraia had mandibles. Palaeontologists are ...

Twenty-thousand years ago or so, a wounded male mammoth lay down in ancient California savannah and died. About 30 years old, not fully grown, one of its 15-foot-long tusks had been dealt a mighty ...