However, advancements in technology and methodology now allowed for a more precise identification of such fossils. This was not the first time that human bones and bear bones were confused.

The team examined the hip bone of an Edmontosaurus, a duck-billed dinosaur. “This research shows beyond doubt that organic ...

New research indicates that hominins migrated into Eurasia approximately 200,000 years earlier than previously believed, ...

Restoration drawing of a Lambeosaurini dinosaur based on its fossils discovered in Sihui, Guangdong province. HAN ZHIXIN/FOR ...

Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years and recent research on fossilized shark teeth has led to the ...

An international team of researchers report on the bird's fully preserved skull. The fossil was unearthed in the 1950s in a former lignite mining area in the Geiseltal in Germany. It was initially ...

The well-preserved fossil that was once a dinosaur's butt bone (sacrum) was excavated from South ... including cross-polarized light microscopy, to unambiguously identify and quantify decaying ...