University of Otago researchers unearthed these rare fossils in Miocene-era crater lake sediments at Hindon Maar near Dunedin ...

Newly discovered insect fossils are so small they can barely be seen by the human eye but have been preserved in an ...

Whitefly fossils from 15 million years ago found in New Zealand give rare insights into ancient ecosystems and insect ...

The "huge" discovery near the shore of Lake Turkana in Kenya proves the theory that some ancient ancestors were neighbors The ...

Ancient fossils which date back to a period between 39,800 and 54,600 years ago offer a fascinating insight into the habits ...

Fossils of 600-million-year-old "tiny humanoids" were discovered in Antarctica. A story perpetuated in some social media ...

Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how ...

There’s plenty of evidence that ancient hominin species crossed paths on many occasions – but it’s never been quite as ...

Scientists suggest a "large-headed" group of extinct humans once lived around the same time as homo sapiens more than 100,000 ...

A "provocative" new piece in Nature has proposed a whole new group of ancient humans – cousins of the Denisovans and ...

About 1.5 million years ago, individuals of two different species in the human evolutionary lineage trudged on a muddy ...

The only first certain signs that ancient humans were living together came in 2010, when researchers published the complete ...