A research team led by Associate Professor Wang Yaqiong from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS), in collaboration with colleagues from ...

Mammoths, dire wolves and saber-toothed cats. Oh my, what a fascinating walk through Pleistocene history is provided by a relatively new Southern Nevada state park. Ice Age Fossils State Park opened ...

Scientists have identified a Middle Pleistocene python fossil in Taiwan, the first evidence that giant snakes once inhabited the island. The vertebra, from a specimen at least four meters long, ...

The fossils are almost the same age as the Gran Dolina hominins, and they are older than later Middle Pleistocene fossils tied to Neandertals and Denisovans. They are also far older than the earliest ...

Italy’s Notarchirico dig site contains some of the oldest evidence of cave lions, straight-tusked elephants and red deer in the region Fossils from more than 600,000 years ago reveal how Southern ...

Surprising fossil finds in a Moroccan quarry reveal 773,000-year-old hominin specimens that are close to the ancestor of modern humans. Read the paper: Early hominins from Morocco basal to the Homo ...