Amateur fossil hunter Robert Beattie has been searching for remnants of the past ever since he was a child. Now, some of his ...

Rhinoceroses have been around for over 40 million years and have been found on all continents except South America and Antarctica. This recently discovered Arctic rhino lived about 23 million years ...

Orrorin tugenensis, discovered in Kenya’s Tugen Hills, walked upright 6 million years ago, long before Homo sapiens evolved. Fossilized femurs reveal that this early hominin balanced between climbing ...

Fossils of an ancient crocodile species found in Egypt uncover the African origins of marine crocodiles from 80 million years ago.

Our hominid ancestors faced a Pleistocene world full of dangers—and apparently one of those dangers was lead poisoning. Lead exposure sounds like a modern problem, at least if you define “modern” the ...

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