The oldest human fossils on Japan's mainland were found in a limestone quarry near Hamakita, 40 km east of Ushikawa.

Mysterious fragments of fossilized bone proposed to be from a creature ... Scientists in Germany have now figured out a potential way to identify just what kind of giant left them, concluding ...

Modeling dinosaur evolution points researchers to potential fossil discoveries closer to the equator.

Instead, primates are usually preserved as petrified teeth and bones that ... in the primate fossil record. Fortunately, paleontologists can use tooth morphology to identify species fairly accurately.

Scientists have discovered a new Cretaceous-era dinosaur species by examining photos of a fossil lost during an allied air ...

The fossilized neck bone of a flying reptile unearthed in ... has led to the positive identification of the first-known female burial with weapons in the 10th-century Carpathian Basin, Hungary.

Researchers from the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology (Canada), the University of Reading (UK), and the University of ...

Researchers in Canada have raised doubts about the authenticity of the fossil used to identify and describe a ... tooth sockets are developed from the bone of the individual teeth, as opposed ...