BEIJING -- Archaeologists have unearthed the tiniest known cat fossil at an ancient human site in East China, identified as ...

after a century of it being "locked inside a block of stone". Researchers used powerful X-ray scans to examine the fossil, found a century ago in Scotland. Their study produced the first full ...

Two big fossil teeth found at the site belong to an extinct human cousin, known as Paranthropus. Scientists had previously thought that Oldowan tools, a kind of simple stone implement, were only ...

LANSING — When it comes to fossils, Michigan missed out on Tyrannosaurus rex and its associates, but the Mitten State came out just fine with its famous Petoskey stones and mastodons. The ...

Things like footprints, burrows, eggs and even poo (called coprolite) can be fossilised too. A fossil is the preserved remains or traces of a dead organism. The process by which a fossil is formed ...