Scientists say the earliest long-snouted fossil crocodile, which was around 12 feet long, lived about 80 million years ago.

WASHINGTON (August 20, 2024) – Much of the early human fossil record originates from just a few places in Africa, where favorable geological conditions have preserved a trove of fossils used by ...

A fossil trackway east of Still Bay in South Africa’s Western Cape province was found in 2018 by a colleague and was brought to our attention. It was found on the surface of a loose block of ...

A new AI study finds leopards hunted early humans in East Africa, challenging long-held ideas about when our ancestors became ...

Paleontologists have uncovered what they believe is the first-ever fossilized ‘butt-drag’ mark left by an animal.

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The fossil record of our ape ancestors in Africa is almost nonexistent for a period of about 8 or 9 million years. This long gap lasted from about 16.5 million to 7 to 9 million years ago, during the ...

New fossil finds in Kenya reveal that Paranthropus boisei had human-like hands and feet, ending a long debate over its ...

Researchers discovered fossils recently in eastern and central Africa that show formerly unknown human species living between 3.3 and 3.5 million years ago. The latest has been unearthed in Afar, ...

South Africa has one of the world’s richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school textbooks contain ...

It was exactly 50 years ago on Nov. 24, 1974 that white men from America, France and Britain on a scientific expedition in Africa “discovered” the 3.2 million year-old fossils of who they called “Lucy ...

Africa faces a massive energy gap due to rapid population growth and underdeveloped grids. The continent has abundant resources for solar, wind, and hydropower energy. New data suggests Africa can ...