A uniquely preserved prehistoric mudhole could hold the oldest-ever human footprints on the Arabian Peninsula, scientists say ...

The oldest-ever human footprint on the Arabian peninsula has been found carefully preserved in a prehistoric mudhole that ...

Dinosaurs may have died out long before humans ever lived, but at this incredible site in New England you can walk in their ...

Fungus-farming ants, fossilized footprints and a prehistoric critter named after a Muppet are just a few of the year’s most notable findings ...

A research team led by Xing Lida from the China University of Geosciences (Beijing), in collaboration with co-authors from ...

Further exploration has led to the discovery of hundreds more fossilized footprints belonging to prehistoric reptiles, amphibians and insects. Fossils of plants, seeds and imprints of raindrops ...

and it is very possible that they lived at the same time and their fossils just haven’t yet been found. But for now, we believe it is most parsimonious to hypothesize that the footprints were ...

Fossils show humans coexisted with giant sloths and mastodons for thousands of years. Evidence includes modified sloth bones ...

Hiker Claudia Steffensen stumbled her way across the discovery of a lifetime when she found a set of 280 million-year-old footprints, the first trace of an ancient prehistoric ecosystem in the ...

There was no evidence of interaction. "The fossil footprints provide us a clear picture of that instant in time, 1.5 million years ago. The different human ancestors may well have passed by each ...

Their prehistoric ancestors were huge — up to ... researcher Mírian Pacheco holds in her palm a round, penny-sized sloth fossil. She notes that its surface is surprisingly smooth, the edges ...

"Fossil footprints are exciting because they provide vivid snapshots that bring our fossil relatives to life," Kevin Hatala, the study's first author and an associate professor of biology at ...