The sharpened stones, part of the Oldowan toolkit, were used by early humans to peel and cut fruits, slice ... fossil at the center of a debate about the role of arborealism in human evolution likely ...

The ratios of strontium isotopes in fossil shark teeth can be used to better understand how coastal environments evolved in ancient times, according to our newly published work. Our study was one ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

A stunning discovery in Denmark has revealed an unexpected link to the world of dinosaurs: fossilized vomit dating back 66 million years, when the Earth was teeming with life from the Cretaceous ...

Katy is Managing Editor at IFLScience where she oversees editorial content from News articles to Features, and even occasionally writes some. The regurgitated blob was discovered by Peter Bennicke ...

For the first time, scientists have completed an in-depth analysis of fossilized soft tissues from a plesiosaur Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent An artist's illustration of a plesiosaur, based on ...

But for the first time ever, researchers at Sweden’s Lund University have analyzed a rare plesiosaur specimen’s fossilized soft tissue samples, and now believe they can finally answer the ...

35 funds had 7.5%-10% fossil-fuel involvement. 8 funds had more than 10% fossil-fuel involvement. The table below lists the funds on both sides of this spectrum: the 16 without fossil-fuel ...

Discoveries in the past two decades have added new branches to the human family tree, including species ... presented by a collection of humanlike fossils that have defied explanation for decades.

An ancient fossilized forest in Montana is reemerging 600 feet higher than the present-day tree line after spending the last 5,500 years encased in alpine tundra. But as temperatures continue to ...

Tree fossils are usually only preserved with their trunks, however, in a groundbreaking study using a fossil from millions of ...

ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a new study. It is the first time researchers use data from ... New Fossil Discovery Sheds Light on the Early Evolution of ...