© Philipp Gunz/MPI EVA Leipzig Who came before us? This question has always intrigued scientists. Fossils recently unearthed in Morocco could help us solve this enigma. A discovery in Morocco The 21 ...

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

Calling aspiring paleontologists! A paid summer internship at Agate Fossil Beds and Scotts Bluff offers real-world experience ...

Recent digs revealed roughly 20 feet of a long-necked dinosaur's skeleton, and paleontologists suspect even more bones are ...

First, dinosaur tracks aged around 140 million years were reported in 2025 on a remote stretch of the coast in South Africa’s Western Cape province. These were the first to be found in the region from ...

Term, a group of 16 Macalester students and five geology department faculty traveled to Argentina in a new short-term study away program. The two-credit course “GEOL 201: Geological Excursions in ...

Based on our understanding of how fossils are formed, the Ediacara Biota shouldn’t still be around for us to look at today.

Some of the world’s most mysterious fossils, soft-bodied creatures preserved in coarse sandstone, owe their survival to an ...

Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

The exceptionally well-preserved fossils shine a light on the mass extinction that brought an end to the “Biological Big Bang.” ...

Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than a half billion ...