ancestor

These 773,000-year-old fossils may reveal our shared human ancestor

Perfectly timed fossils from Morocco reveal a forgotten African population living near the very root of the human family tree.…

23 hours ago

Long shot science leads to revised age for land-animal ancestor

In 1984, an amateur paleontologist in Scotland found a remarkable specimen: a nearly complete fossil of what looked to be…

8 months ago

Tanks of the Triassic: New crocodile ancestor identified

Dinosaurs get all the glory. But aetosaurs, a heavily armored cousin of modern crocodiles, ruled the world before dinosaurs did.…

2 years ago