This group of proboscideans began roaming on Earth around the end of the Eocene Epoch era, around 34 million years ago.

Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a ...

The new finding suggests that these animals were in contact with humans — who arrived in South ... Previous research has noted other megafauna fossils around 6,000 and 5,000 years old in the ...

suggesting that Denisovans lived and interbred with modern humans there. Before the jawbone’s paleoproteomic analysis, however, Denisovan fossils had only ever been molecularly confirmed from ...

Facial bones dated to between 1.4 and 1.1 million years old have been found in a cave in the Atapuerca mountains in Spain. They are the oldest bones of their kind in Western Europe, and ...

A well-preserved giant panda fossil has been discovered in a cave in northwest China’s Shaanxi province, said the provincial department of natural resources on Wednesday. The fossil dates back ...

WASHINGTON — A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday. The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone and ...