The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

Fossils from Qatar have revealed a small, newly identified sea cow species that lived in the Arabian Gulf more than 20 million years ago. The site contains the densest known collection of fossil sea ...

An artistic reconstruction of a herd of ancient sea cows foraging on the seafloor. Note to editors: Photos of the Al Maszhabiya site and fossils, an artist’s reconstruction of the new species in life ...

Addis Ababa, November 27, 2025 (ENA) — A new fossil discovered at Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia, has revealed that Lucy’s species co-existed with another relative species, Arizona State University ...

In the latest twist in human evolution, scientists have discovered that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belonged to a previously unknown ancient relative. Dated to around 3.4 million years ago, ...

In 2009, Yohannes Haile-Selassie and his team were combing the desert landscape of Burtele, a paleontological site in the Afar Region of Ethiopia, when Stephanie Melillo found something remarkable: an ...

Newly discovered fossils prove that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belongs to a little-known, recently named ancient human relative. Newly discovered fossils prove that a mysterious foot found in ...

The new research could raise about the status of the famous Australopithecus afarensis skeleton 'Lucy' The newly discovered appendage clearly does not belong to Lucy's species because it has an ...

Around 410 million years ago, terrestrial life was relatively simple. There were no forests or prairies—land was largely dominated by slimy microbial mats. The types of plants that would eventually ...

Radioactive minerals in eggshells can help scientists pinpoint a fossil’s age with stunning accuracy. Scientists excavate dinosaur egg nests in Mongolia's Eastern Gobi Basin. National Geographic ...

Attempts to date the fossils themselves, such as bones or teeth, have often produced uncertain results. Stellenbosch University’s Dr. Ryan Tucker and colleagues took a different approach: they used ...

The brilliant iridescent hues found in ammolite come from tiny air gaps in the fossils’ layers, a new study finds. By Alexa Robles-Gil Millions of years ago, squid-like creatures called ammonites swam ...