Fossils can reveal traces of an ancient world, but their exact age is not always easy to discern. Palaeontologists have traditionally relied on a range of methods to date fossil sites, some more ...

A 410-million-year-old fossil of a giant prehistoric organism which once loomed over north-east Scotland has been added to the collections of National Museums Scotland (NMS). The example of ...

Where did our species first emerge? Fossils discovered in Morocco dating back more than 773,000 years bolster the theory that Homo sapiens originally appeared in Africa, scientists said in a study ...

Learn how newly discovered Ediacaran fossils are pushing the origins of animals back millions of years before the Cambrian ...

Discover one of Illinois’ most unexpected adventures: a former coal mine turned fossil-hunting hotspot with ancient finds, ...