Teeth from the largest sharks to ever live, a sabertooth salmon, and nearly 9 million-year-old fish bones are among several ...

The family member asked the office to place his remains in the family plot. “This identification brings a long awaited resolution to his family, who have been notified and expressed their deep ...

Starting 1 September 2024, the free Fruit identification service returns for RHS members. Before sending in any fruit, members are encouraged to take a moment to read the details provided below.

The latter left one of its teeth impaled in the sea cow’s body. By analyzing the fossil, unearthed in Venezuela, researchers were able to piece together how the sea cow, which belonged to an ...

Microorganisms inhabiting gypsum have been observed in environments that differ greatly in water availability. Gypsum colonized by microorganisms, including cyanobacteria, eukaryotic algae, and ...

"It was pretty clear it was a mammoth." Experts have determined the fossils are of a 40-year-old male Columbian mammoth—one of the largest known mammoth species—from roughly 20,000 years ago.

2003 a, b). The first fossil fungi have been identified in rocks dated from the Ordovician, i.e. 460 to 455 Ma ago (Redecker et al., 2000). However, molecular clock estimates for the evolution of ...

One of these fossil hotspots is the eastern branch of the East African Rift System, home to important fossil sites such as Oldupai Gorge in Tanzania. Yet, the eastern branch of the rift system ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox for free every month. Have you heard of Altamura Man? Since it ...

Two incredibly rare fossils found on Scotland's Isle of Skye are rewriting our understanding of how mammals evolved. While modern small mammals live as little as a year, one of the first to roam ...