"The chances of finding one fossilized are practically zero," said one of the scientists who is researching the specimen Getty Scientists have discovered a rare, 520-million-year-old fossil with a ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...

Looking back at human history, there emerges a scene where beings that once walked on four legs suddenly rose up and stood on two feet. Scholars evaluate this change as a decisive turning point that ...