Primates of all stripes really love their crystals. Archeologists have found the shiny rocks at dig sites dating back as long as 780,000 years ago. Although, we are still not sure if our ancestors ...
Archaeologists at Panama's El Caño Archaeological Park recently excavated Tomb 3, which holds the remains of an elite ...
Recently-revealed notebooks belonging to a late paleontologist contain the missing information needed to help researchers finish their study of a remarkable fossil discovered nearly three decades ago.
The Late Bronze Age “Urnfield” world is famous for cremation - yet that very practice usually destroys the biological clues archaeologists need. Now, an international team has used rare inhumation ...
Beyond the buildings, archaeologists also recovered fragments from handled cups called terrines and other pottery with recognizable rim decorations. Combined with additional radiocarbon dating, ...
A study published in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology describes the smallest rhynchosaur fossil ever recorded from the ...
A sediment-washing “bubbler” helped researchers recover 65.5-million-year-old teeth that illuminate how early primate ...
Tiny, tooth-sized fossils have just reshaped the story of our deepest ancestry. Paleontologists have discovered the southernmost remains ever found of Purgatorius—the earliest-known relative of all ...