Fossils can reveal traces of an ancient world, but their exact age is not always easy to discern. Palaeontologists have traditionally relied on a range of methods to date fossil sites, some more ...

Researchers have found that fossilized dinosaur eggshells contain a natural clock that can reveal when dinosaurs lived. The technique delivers surprisingly precise ages and could revolutionize how ...

A 410-million-year-old fossil of a giant prehistoric organism which once loomed over north-east Scotland has been added to the collections of National Museums Scotland (NMS). The example of ...

Where did our species first emerge? Fossils discovered in Morocco dating back more than 773,000 years bolster the theory that Homo sapiens originally appeared in Africa, scientists said in a study ...

Through the analysis of quartz gravel samples from ground strata, a China-US research team has recently pushed back the date ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Prototaxites fossil was discovered in a sedimentary deposit near the village of Rhynie in Aberdeenshire [Neil Hanna] A ...