CHICAGO (WLS) -- The new University of Chicago fossil lab opened Thursday on the South Side. It's home to 6,000 square feet of dinosaur fossils. Among the fossils at the lab is one of the largest ...

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One of the planet’s most successful arthropods, trilobites, abounded in the oceans from about 520 million to 250 million years ago. Trilobite exoskeletons are found on all seven continents and are a ...

View of the Lake Turkana area in Kenya (photo by Filiberto Strazzari/Flickr) Skull cast of Homo rudolfensis, discovered in Kenya’s East Turkana (photo by Peter O’Connor/Flickr) (click to enlarge) As ...

At the end of the last Ice Age, a land bridge emerged between Siberia and North America offering wandering humans an easier route than their seafaring predecessors. In time, they spread out, carrying ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Scientists have recently discovered the fossil of a salamander-like creature that they believe lived 40 million years before the first dinosaur. On Wednesday, the Field Museum in ...

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Newly discovered African fossils lend a hand to suspicions that an ancient hominid outside our own genus, Homo, made and used stone and bone tools. Even with recovered foot fossils, Mongle’s team ...

Every now and again, scientists discover fossils that are so bizarre they defy classification, their body plans unlike any other living animals or plants. Tullimonstrum (also known as the Tully ...

NAGOYA, JAPAN—The Mainichi reports that the Middle Pleistocene fossils known as “Ushikawa Man,” once suggested to be the oldest known human remains in Japan, are actually bear bones.

"This is the first time that we've been able to do this type of archaeology technique to a galaxy outside the Milky Way," ...