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A newly-described fossil skull has given paleontologists their best look yet at a hyaenodont with a meat-cleaving bite. Found in the 30 million-year-old rock of Egypt’s Fayum Basin, the ...

Paranthropus robustus fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal new insights into their diet, social structure, and survival 2 ...

"For days, the team meticulously excavated layers of rock dating back around 30 million years," Al-Ashqar recalls of the dig that yielded the fossilized skull bones. "Just as we were about to ...

A newly discovered fossil of Paranthropus robustus, an early human relative, reveals that it walked upright like modern ...

In a rare find, a team of scientists in Egypt uncovered a nearly complete skull ... while digging in the Fayum Depression, a basin in the desert known as one of the most significant fossil ...

Dinosaur Discovery Site is starting a new dig in an area where dinosaur bones were previously found, and experts hope it will ...

Scientists report that a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years ...