A paleontologist has uncovered a huge mammoth bone dating back to the Ice Age in a rare discovery in northwest Missouri.

During photosynthesis, trees convert the carbon dioxide to sugars and in doing so produce oxygen as a biproduct, which is vital for life on Earth. “Trees draw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and ...

Investigators are working to determine the identity and cause of death of a person whose skeletal remains were found along a remote stretch of desert road near Barstow this week. The bones, which ...

Authorities are investigating the discovery of a skull and other human remains found along a remote dirt road in the Mojave Desert this week, officials confirmed. The remains were discovered around ...

RABAT — A newly announced fossil discovery is further cementing Morocco’s central place in the prehistory of humanity. On Jan. 7, Moroccan and international researchers revealed the unearthing of ...

The preserved prehistoric prints could be the oldest recored on the Arabian peninsula.

Fossil discoveries point to a prehistoric river that may have been home to unusually large eurypterids. These ancient arthropods, often called sea scorpions, are known from scattered remains that ...

Scientists studying the fossil remains of giant prehistoric kangaroos have found that even animals weighing more than 200kg may not have been too big to bounce, overturning long-held assumptions about ...

(CNN) — Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may help scientists resolve a long-standing mystery: Who came before us? Three jawbones, including one from a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of three jawbones excavated from Thomas Quarry in Morocco that is 773,000 years old. - Hamza Mehimdate/Programme Préhistoire ...