More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

Rivers began pumping weathered material into the sea about a billion years after Earth formed, suggesting continents may have gotten an early start.

In the Peruvian desert, a 9-million-year-old fossil has been discovered, offering a rare glimpse into one of the largest ...

A marine animal snacked on some sea lilies that did not agree with its stomach—and we now know what happened next ...

Sharks and rays have populated the world's oceans for around 450 million years, but more than a third of the species living ...

The rise of pastoralist peoples in the Eurasian steppes and their westward spread some 5,000 years ago may have been fueled by sheep herding and people exploiting their milk. As early as 8,000 years ...

A fossil hunter found a lump of prehistoric vomit roughly dated to the time of the mass extinction that wiped out the ...

An amateur fossil hunter has uncovered a piece of animal vomit which dates back 66 million years on a beach in Denmark.

Millions of years ago, catastrophic events wiped out most life on Earth—but some ancient animals managed to survive against all odds. From resilient reptiles to tenacious fish, these 15 species ...

The fossil was found at a cliff in Denmark. Fossilized vomit is called regurgitalite, and it's a type of trace fossil, which ...