Sometimes it's hard to identify exactly what a fossil is from—but wouldn’t it be cool to be able to point at a fossil and ...

Saber-toothed cats were the first fossils discovered at La Brea Tar Pits and are some of the most common fossils found in the ...

Jawbone fragments and teeth from a previously unknown species hint that the evolution of modern apes occurred in what's now ...

The floor of Bender’s Cave looked like a graveyard. Fossils spread across the submerged stream bed in every direction, packed tightly enough that paleontologist John Moretti could barely move without ...

In a study published in Science, an international research team from the Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center ...

Fossil jaw remains found in Egypt suggest that the earliest modern apes evolved in North Africa, not in East Africa where ...

The ancestor of apes was long thought to come from East Africa, but newly discovered fossils in Egypt may prompt a rethink.

A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, lived about 17 to 18 million years ago and may sit very close to the ancestor of all ...