University of California, RiversideMany experts didn’t think such tiny prehistoric fossils would ever be found. Fortunately, ...

Researchers emphasize that this fossil confirms that cerapodan dinosaurs underwent diversification well before the Cretaceous ...

Remarkably, the fossil seems to date to around ... it a little hard to be completely definitive that it's the oldest saber-toothed animal found so far because there's a chance it might be about ...

Scientists predict that sponges—among the most basic animals—arose a few hundred million years before the occurrence of the oldest confirmed fossil specimens, which date to about 500 million years ago ...

Learn more about Homo affinis erectus, Western Europe’s oldest human ancestor.

Cerapodan body fossils, however, have been harder to come by. For some time, the oldest example was a 164-million-year-old ...

The oldest fossils are remains of marine organisms that populated the planet's oceans. When they died, the plants and animals were buried by mud, sand, or silt on the sea floor. Land animals and ...

The excavation of bone tools at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania expands the range of ancient hominids’ cultural innovations.

Face bones unearthed in a cave suggest that members of our genus, Homo, reached northern Spain as early as 1.4 million years ago.

An ancient cerapodan dinosaur fossil discovered in Morocco has been identified as the oldest of its kind, shedding light on ...