Homo erectus may have deliberately selected rocks embedded with fossils and crystals to craft their hand axes.

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A rodent found in Laos has been determined to belong to a group thought to have gone extinct in the fossil records about 11 ...

TALCOTT, W. Va. (WVVA/Gray News) - While many kids might dig on the playground for buried treasure, very few find anything of note. However, two kids in West Virginia are the exception after digging ...

(CNN) — A 280 million-year-old fossil thought to be a well-preserved specimen of an ancient reptile is largely a forgery, according to new research. The fossil, initially discovered in the Italian ...

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