For the first time, scientists identified the sex of a 3.5-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus using ancient proteins ...

Figures from a research paper on the oldest modern human fossil, detected in Ethiopia near ... That made the Homo sapiens fossil at least that old — and the oldest ever discovered at the time. "But ...

3.18-million-year-old grandmother: Lucy’s bones leave Ethiopia for a historic first-ever European display ... She was believed to be the oldest human ancestor found until the discovery of "Toumai" in ...

Lucy's fragments will be shown at Prague's National Museum as part of a 'Human Origins And Fossils' exhibition for two months ...

That sentiment stems from a new paper published in Current Biology which posits that dinosaur fossils older than we’ve ever ...

Two fossils suggest that birds were thriving and ... Contenders for the true first birds have now been found in Chinese rocks dating from the late Jurassic, around 149 million years ago.

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — ...