'First European tooth' unearthed
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Scientists in Spain say that they have found a tooth from a human ancestor more than one million years old.
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Scientists said the fossils should give new insights into a little-known period of early human origins.
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DNA extracted from an ancient human skeleton found in Alaska suggests that the New World was first settled by prehistoric seafarers 15,000 years ago.
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Archaeologists say they have unearthed jewels dating back 5,000 years, possible proof of Europe's earliest civilisation.
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Recent observations have uncovered evidence that helps to confirm the identification of the remains of one of the earliest stellar explosions recorded by humans. The new study shows that the supernova remnant RCW 86 is much younger than previously thought.
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A fabled fossil goes on view for the first time in decades  -  and ignites a controversy
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Researchers on Thursday announced the discovery of the remains of a short-necked plesiosaur, a prehistoric marine reptile the size of a bus, that they believe is the first complete skeleton ever found.
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Researchers find a cache of fossils in Ethiopia belonging to early human ancestors.
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DNA is aiding fossil hunters in the search for human origins by approaching the search for human origins from a different angle.
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Analysis of a 40,000-year-old tooth found in southern Greece suggests Neanderthals were more mobile than once thought, paleontologists said Friday.
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Paleontologists working in Ethiopia have discovered the remains of at least nine primitive human ancestors that are up to 4.5 million years old.
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Archaeologists have reported finding what could be the earliest evidence for domestication of manioc in the Americas.
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The 1.77-million-year-old remains of three adults and a teenager unearthed in the Caucasus point to a far greater variation in early humans than once suspected, according to a study released Wednesday.
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A Swedish geologist has found what appears to be the oldest known fossil from a mammal ever found in Scandinavia &#151; a 145-million-year-old tooth from a prehistoric rodent, a Swedish university said Thursday.
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As pterodactyls go it was small, toothless and had unexpectedly curved toes Â yet scientists are welcoming their new find as another piece in the puzzle of ancient life.
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New jaw fossils might suggest a direct line of descent between two species of early humans, including the one to which &quot;Lucy&quot; belongs.  The 3.2 million-year-old Lucy, the earliest known hominid, was found in Ethiopia in 1974 by U.S. paleontologists Donald Johanson and Tom Gray. Lucy and her kind, Australopithecus afarensis, stood upright  and walked on two feet, though they might also have been agile tree-climbers. ...
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A fossilized jaw found in an Alberta gravel pit may have cleared up a mystery for researchers wondering how brown bears originally made it across North America.