Folder 7 Olduvai avian fossil material, 1962-1963, 1967-1968, 1976. Correspondence concerning Wetmore's study of avian fossils excavated by Louis S. B. Leakey. Correspondents include Leakey, Mary D.

Marine brachiopod fossils found among Roman artifacts on Morocco’s Mogador Island predate the island itself and may have ended up there via ancient trade networks.

“The Leakey Foundation funded work in Big Bend National Park as we knew there were fossil primates and also fossil primate-like creatures there,” Beard said. “I call them ‘primatomorphans.’ ...

Among the fossils, they found the first ever hominin remains from submerged Sundaland, and one of them belonged to H. erectus.

Polar nesting began much earlier than thought The fossils are around 73 million years old, showing that birds were nesting in the Arctic at least 30 million years earlier than scientists thought.

The childhood memories of a landowner in southern Brazil led scientists back to the remnants of a prehistoric wetland that thrived before a major mass extinction.

WAUCHULA, Fla. — Fossil hunters can sift through dirt and clay-like material at Bone Valley Experience to dig for a hidden treasure, and Sarah Bates knows exactly what she hopes to find.

A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body of zombie fungus bursting forth from its head.

A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body of zombie fungus bursting forth from its head.