The ancient kitten was so small that it could comfortably fit in the palm of one's hand and was much smaller than the modern ...

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 ...

"Fossil footprints are exciting because they ... That's something that we can't really get from bones or stone tools." Hatala, an expert in foot anatomy, found the species' footprints reflected ...

The knee was much older than the earliest known stone tools. The following year Johanson's team discovered another fossil that is still a landmark in the story of human origins. "Lucy" -- named ...

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 ...

"Fossil bones and stone tools show that there is a lot of commonality among our species and our ancestors. Humans have been migrating back and forth for more than 300,000 years, and cross-cultural ...

BEIJING, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- Archaeologists have unearthed the tiniest known cat fossil at an ancient human site in east China, identified as an extinct species of leopard cat. This diminutive feline ...