Scientists say 47-million-year-old fossil is an early primate. May 19, 2009 — -- Scientists say a 47-million-year-old fossil found in Germany may be a key link to explaining the evolution of ...

Scientists analyzing 443-million-year-old Scottish fossils have uncovered the early evidence that some of the first groups of vertebrates possessed surprisingly advanced eyes and traces of bone, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of three jawbones excavated from Thomas Quarry in Morocco that is 773,000 years old. - Hamza Mehimdate/Programme Préhistoire ...

A Rotadiscus grandis fossil (left) and an interpretive drawing (right). Credit: Li et al Exceptionally well-preserved fossils from the Cambrian period have helped fill a gap in our understanding of ...

A peculiar 37-million-year-old snake fossil, Paradoxophidion richardoweni, unearthed in England, is rewriting evolutionary ...

A treasure trove of exceptionally preserved early animals from more than half a billion years ago has been discovered in the Grand Canyon, one of the natural world's most iconic sites. Subscribe to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Find the fossil sites' interactive display, Maropeng exhibition, Cradle of Humankind. flowcomm, CC BY South Africa has one of the ...

The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

(CNN) — Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may help scientists resolve a long-standing mystery: Who came before us? Three jawbones, including one from a ...