Manufactured objects will form distinctive, if sometimes hard to interpret, clues to human existence, paleontologist authors ...

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Recent excavations in Uruguay to uncover and begin researching fossilized remains estimated to date back 29,000 years could shoot down the theory that ... ago prehistoric fossil remains were ...

A tiny Siberian fish fossil that’s a whopping 415 million years old may be part of a group of fish that was ancestor to all the jawed vertebrates living today. Described online in the journal ...

Charles Darwin said the discovery supported his theory of natural selection. But for more than a century, it remained the only bird fossil from that era. Unlike the Archaeopteryx, which featured ...

New study challenges the theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of part of ...

The early part of the twentieth century saw evolutionary theory embattled by disagreements ... other paleontologists were convinced that the fossil record could best be explained by directed ...

However, the fossil found, which would be a 555-million ... as it places ecdysozoans in the Precambrian, supporting the theory that this lineage predates the Cambrian explosion," Hughes explained.

When fossil remains were found that were unlike ... Much of Cuvier's research produced knowledge that would ultimately support Darwin's theory of evolution, although Cuvier himself did not realize ...

The prevailing scientific theory about dinosaurs on Hațeg Island ... with both immigration and local evolution at play. More fossils are waiting to be unearthed in Europe, which could help ...

and fossils of more complex organisms in the newest rocks. This supports Darwin's theory of evolution, which states that simple life forms gradually evolved into more complex ones. Evidence for ...