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A new study has overturned decades of belief that the Ushikawa fossils were among Japan’s oldest human remains. Advanced CT scans revealed the bones, long thought to be from a human over 20,000 years ...

Republican allies of the oil and gas industry question the objectivity of an independent report from the nation’s top science ...

The discovery of a collection of about 700 fossils known as the Jiangchuan Biota gives scientists a better understanding of ...

Rare 450-million-year-old fossil, Paleocanna tentaculum, that provides a clearer link between ancient cnidarians and modern ...

A long-standing mystery in southern Africa’s fossil record is beginning to unravel. After massive lava flows 182 million ...

For 25 years, a hand-sized sea creature embedded in Illinois rock held the title of the world’s oldest octopus. Now, thanks ...

A team cracked the case by examining the fossil using a synchrotron, which produces beams of light by accelerating electrons ...

For nearly 25 years, a hand-sized fossil pulled from the rocks of Illinois held a remarkable title: the oldest known octopus ...

A 150-year-old fossil at London’s Natural History Museum has revealed a new species of coelacanth, filling a critical gap in ...