BEIJING -- Archaeologists have unearthed the tiniest known cat fossil at an ancient human site in East China, identified as an extinct species of leopard cat. This diminutive feline was so petite that ...

A recent scientific discovery published in the journal Nature Communications has unveiled compelling evidence of the presence ...

In the 1950s, when they were discovered, the Ushikawa fossils were identified as parts of a human humerus (upper arm bone) and femur (leg bone), believed to be over 20,000 years old ...

The bone fragments were once thought to be some of the oldest human fossils found in Japan. When you purchase through links ...

In June 2021, the fossils of a three-year-old male child dating back 78,000 years were found in a grave at the Panga ya Saidi ...

But until now, the fossil record suggested that it took up to 10 million years for dinosaurs to spread to the northern half of Pangea, known as Laurasia ... younger than the oldest commonly ...

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With Carter’s passing, Biden is now the oldest living American president. He and Trump have a three-year age difference. Biden will leave the White House in January 2025 after Trump gets ...

UNBELIEVABLE three-million-year-old razor-sharp vegetable peelers used by the world's oldest ... ape-like and human-body features. Now experts have discovered the small knives known as flakes ...

Researchers have dated the rocks the fossils were found in—using high-precision techniques—to around 230 million years ago, which means the species is one of the oldest known dinosaurs ...

For generations, dinosaurs have captivated the human ... But fossil discovery in Wyoming is rewriting that story. Paleontologists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have unearthed the oldest ...

Illustration by Gabriel Ugueto For generations, dinosaurs have captivated the human imagination ... “We have, with these fossils, the oldest equatorial dinosaur in the world — it’s also ...