"For days, the team meticulously excavated layers of rock dating back around 30 million years," Al-Ashqar recalls of the dig ...

The skull is the most complete ever found ... In 1979 he landed a contract with the Smithsonian Institution to dig for fossils in Florida. “For 10 years they paid me to go around looking ...

Could the fossils found ... Each of the four dig sites reveals only a partial picture: Lucy, while a 40 percent complete skeleton, has only fragments of a skull. The skull found at Hadar in ...

The Piltdown fossils, including a portion of the skull, a jawbone ... England by workers digging a pit. They handed over the bones to Charles Dawson, a lawyer and amateur geologist.

Kermitops is notable for more than just its namesake puppet persona. The early fossil record of amphibians and their ancestors is largely fragmentary, which makes it difficult to understand how ...

We find these fossils inside these cylindrical structures ... but the researchers think they had another way to dig their burrows. "Their skulls have kind of a scoop shape, so we think they ...

The almost complete skull fossil can be found in the Geiseltal Collection. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by ...

Paleontologists have unearthed the oldest fossil belonging to the hominin species Homo erectus. The 2 million-year-old fossil skull, excavated over a five-year period in South Africa, suggests the ...

In this fun hands-on workshop, pupils work in groups to identify a range of fossils, perform their own fossil dig and work out what their mystery ... types of fossils and even uncover a dinosaur skull ...