During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...
A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...
Fossils of a human ancestor from 773,000 years ago may be near the base of the Homo sapiens lineage, representing a common ...
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Rare Miocene fossils join CMM holdings

Longtime fossil collector Barry Norbeck donated thousands of shells and other invertebrate fossils to the Calvert Marine ...
The way Sahelanthropus tchadensis moved has long been debated. The discovery of a small bump on the front of the thigh bone ...
A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.
Some 445 million years ago, life on Earth was forever changed. During the geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over ...
In rural Prentiss County, on a triangle of land cornered between a stretch of U.S. 45 and Twenty Mile Creek, Joanna Byrd ...
The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.
Sponges are among Earth's most ancient animals, but exactly when they evolved has long puzzled scientists. Genetic ...