Later, when describing the discovery in the journal Nature, the team named the new species Homo floresiensis [PDF]. This ...

“We’ve found that a lot of younger children enjoy ... 130 E Ninth St., is filled with interactive play areas, like the “hobbit house,” where kids can crawl inside and interact with a ...

Fossils from the Ice Age are only one source that exemplifies ... No examples of such fast growth in size in primates have been found. Where did the Flores “hobbit people” originate from? This topic ...

The bone, described two decades after its discovery, suggests the species might have grown up to 20 percent bigger than other ...

The 237-million-year-old remains are among the oldest silesaurid fossils ever found, adding to paleontologists’ understanding of this still-mysterious group of prehistoric reptiles Alexa Robles ...

The identification of part of the fossilized remains of a so-called "terror bird" species in South America has given researchers new insight into the apex predators ...

“There is a high chance that more dinosaur fossils are to be found within Port Island or on nearby islands,” said Michael Pittman, assistant professor at the school of life sciences at the ...

The fossil, found by Jay Anderson in a Steele County gravel pit, was identified as belonging to the genus Endoceras, from the Paleozoic Era. Michael Kjelland (left), a professor from Mayville ...

"You never know unless you look," said Jayson Kowinsky, a high school physics teacher from Pittsburgh who, while sifting around in the New Jersey dirt, found a fossil that helped fill out the ...

The Development Bureau said on Wednesday the fossils were found on Port Island, while experts believed they were from the Cretaceous period, about 145 million to 66 million years ago.

The lore of the discovery goes that while excavating a cave sediment laid down in the Pleistocene epoch, a local field worker found human skull ... the scientists, the fossil was also given ...