shedding light on a group of mysterious “Hobbit” humans that lived thousands of years ago. The “astonishingly small” limb, believed to be around 700,000 years old, was found in the island of Flores in ...

The original hobbit fossils — named by the discoverers after characters in “The Lord of the Rings” — date back to between 60,000 and 100,000 years ago. The new fossils were excavated at a ...

By studying rare fossils of jaws and other skull parts of a long-extinct Caribbean monkey, a team of researchers that ...

The museum hosted an event the following month to give names to fossils found in the area. Based on the protruding part of the upper jaw bones, museum officials determined the item brought in by ...

Imagine a world on the brink of collapse: volcanic eruptions spewing toxic gases, oceans turning acidic, and up to 90% of ...

The bones of a prehistoric elephant have been unearthed in a cliff face after they were exposed in a storm. The remains were ...

An analysis of tombstone fragments revealed fossilized remnants of a diverse group of shelled protist called foraminiferans, ...

Sep. 18, 2024 — A researcher has found evidence that the treeless, rugged, grassland landscape of the Falkland Islands was home to a lush, diverse rainforest up to ...

Relatively few fossils of early turtles have been found, leaving it a mystery how the creature developed its unique features, and even which ancestors they evolved from. A research published in ...

An inquest in the U.K. has heard Kaicy Brown was found unresponsive alongside his grandfather David Brown, according to news reports Kirsty Hatcher is an Associate Editor on the People.com Morning ...