Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...

Victor Beccari, a PhD student, was studying reptile fossils at London’s Natural History Museum when he came across a familiar skeleton. The prehistoric lizard-like creature he was looking at, called a ...

One hypothesis suggests the fossils may have been traded for use in ritual or medicinal practices, researchers said. Photo by Jens Lehmann. During an excavation on Morocco’s Mogador Island, ...