If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Oldest-ever modern bird fossil found in Europe has been nicknamed the “Wonderchicken ...

When the fossil’s container stored at the Czech National Museum was examined for repacking in 2011, it turned out to be “the world's oldest fossilized large land plant.” An academic paper on ...

An ancient cerapodan dinosaur fossil discovered in Morocco has been identified as the oldest of its kind, shedding light on the early evolution of these herbivorous dinosaurs. Unearthed in the El ...

This grass spikelet from the middle Cretaceous is about 100 million years old, preserved in amber as the earliest fossil ever found of the evolution of grass, and is covered on its tip by the ...

This new specimen surpasses the previous record by 2 million years, marking it as the oldest body fossil of a ceratopsian ever discovered. While fossilized footprints indicated that cerapodans ...

A fragment of a face from a human ancestor is the oldest in Western Europe ... Archaeologists believe the fossil is between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years old. Researchers hope the discovery ...

Washington — A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday. The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone and ...

The Cradle of Humankind northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa has yielded its first Homo erectus fossil, and the oldest found anywhere. Homo erectus experienced a changing climate, and moved out ...

Scientists have described about 250,000 different fossil species, yet that is a small fraction of those that lived in the past. The oldest fossils are remains of marine organisms that populated ...