Fossils are rare because their formation and discovery depend on chains of ecological and geological events that occur over deep time. Only a small fraction of the primates that have ever lived has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brooklyn College Professor Stephen Chester (center) points out dental features on an enlarged model of an extinct mammal to ...

A set of fossils found in underwater caves in the Dominican Republic is giving scientists a clearer picture of Antillothrix ...

Tiny, tooth-sized fossils have just reshaped the story of our deepest ancestry. Paleontologists have discovered the southernmost remains ever found of Purgatorius—the earliest-known relative of all ...

For decades, scientists thought that the story of human evolution was fairly straightforward: We and our primate ancestors evolved in Africa over millions of years, then started crossing continents ...

A fossil that would fit on a baby’s fingertip has revealed fresh clues about the evolution of the earliest-known relative of all primates, including humans. Remains of the now extinct shrew-sized ...

Fossil jaw remains found in Egypt suggest that the earliest modern apes evolved in North Africa, not in East Africa where ...

An 18-million-year-old jawbone discovered in Egypt challenges the long-held view that East Africa was the cradle of our ...

Machine generated contents note: PART I. Chronology and environment 1 -- 1 Chronology and zoogeography of the Miocene hominoid record in -- Europe J. Agusti, L. Cabrera and M. Garces 2 -- 2 The ...

That places the fossils about 656,000 to 560,000 years after the boundary. A broader cast of “almost primates” Purgatorius matters because it sits near the base of a larger family tree. The paper ...