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Fossils found in Moroccan cave may be a close Homo sapiens ancestor

The fossilized lower jawbones of two adults and a toddler, as well as teeth, a thigh bone, and some vertebrae, were unearthed in a cave in Casablanca, Morocco.

The mandible of an archaic human who lived about 773 000 years ago is pictured after being excavated at a cave called Grotte a Hominides at a site known as Thomas Quarry I in the southwest part of the Moroccan city of Casablanca in this undated photograph released on January 7, 2026.
A REPLICA of the remains of a more than 3-million-year-old female hominid known as "Lucy" at the National Museum in Addis Ababa August 7, 2007.

A newly discovered species complicates the human origin story

160-million-year-old Anchiornis fossils.

160 million years later: This rare fossil is overturning everything we knew about how birds evolved

Dinosaur, edmontosaurus close up with open mouth. Ukraine, Khmelnitsky, October 2021.

'Medusa,' possible 'dinosaur mummy' discovered in Badlands, transferred for further research


Experience the beauty and history of the Tuf Kerem Maharal Reserve

Keep an eye out for volcanic ash (tuf) and even some fossils that froze in the ancient marine rocks. The fossils provide a glimpse of sea life in the long book of life on Earth. 

 Tuf Kerem Maharal Reserve

Dramatic fossil shows pugnacious mammal attacking a dinosaur

"Dinosaurs nearly always outsized their mammal contemporaries, so traditional belief has been that their interactions were unilateral - the bigger dinosaurs always ate the smaller mammals."

 Cretaceous carnivorous mammal Repenomamus robustus attacking the plant-eating dinosaur Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis

The king takes flight: New pterosaur 'Elvis' receives scientific name

The pterosaur was nicknamed after the king of rock and roll due to a giant pompadour-like bony crest on its skull.

 Photograph of the whole specimen of Petrodacyle wellnhoferi.

Step this way: When did humans learn how to walk upright? - study

Through digitally recreating the muscles of an early human ancestor, research has shed new light on how humans evolved to walk upright.

 Illustrative depiction of the Australopithecus Afarensis

After nearly 100 years, scientists solve puzzle of ancient predator's skull

Crassigyrinus would have likely been a feared predator in its day, as it would have behaved somewhat like a modern crocodile.

3D reconstruction of the cranium and lower jaws of Crassigyrinus scoticus in articulation.

T-Rex skeleton sells for more than $6 million at Swiss auction

More than half of the skeleton's bones are original. The rest are replacements made from plaster and epoxy resin casts.

 A 67-million-year-old T-Rex skeleton named "TRX-293 TRINITY Tyrannosaurus" and measuring 11.6m long and 3.9m high, is seen during a preview at Koller auction house in Zurich, Switzerland March 29, 2023.

Researchers have discovered the oldest known bat skeletons

Bats are one of the most unique and fascinating creatures on the planet. Despite the immense interest in bats, there is still a lot we don't know about their history.

 Fruit Bat in daytime.

Passover in the shadow of the climate crisis

The climate crisis, which is already raining down plagues upon the earth, advances at an accelerated pace. The doom of millions of people and thousands of species, barring a miracle, is inevitable.

 ‘TO WHAT IS our generation enslaved? Oil and gas.’

Prehistoric ‘moss animals’ are millions of years younger than previously thought

The delayed appearance of these animals shows that this was not a unique period of rapid evolutionary advances, as previously believed.

Mineralized fossils of Protomelission gatehousei from Wirrealpa, Australia.

Record-breaking dinosaur footprint appears on the coast of England - study

Measuring nearly one meter long, the footprint is the largest of its kind found in the English county of Yorkshire.

Replica of theropod footprints attributed to Megalosaurus