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How a self-taught fossil hunter made his biggest discovery
In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, this self-taught paleontologist has been looking for dinosaurs in creek beds and rivers for more than 30 years, and has become something of a legend in the field. Then, outside a NASA…
Controversial fossil hints Homo sapiens blazed a trail out of Africa earlier than thought
The jaw fragment suggests our species began traveling abroad 50,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Ancient fossils from Morocco mess up modern human origins
The findings may push back the origin of our species by more than 100,000 years and challenge leading ideas about where and how our lineage evolved.
Laser light uncovers hidden secrets of feathered dinosaur fossils
In a new study, researchers have used lasers and simple cameras to uncover the body shape and texture of 200 fossils of a small, feathered dinosaur named Anchiornis huxleyi.
A pair of 99 million-year-old fossils reveal Cretaceous baby birds with finger claws and adultlike feathers.
Scientists have discovered a new human-like species, deep in a cave system in South Africa. Researchers have said that the discovery could change our conception of human ancestry. For more on the discovery, Jeffrey Brown speaks to Jamie Shreeve of…
After more than a century of extinction in the scientific community, the name Brontosaurus may be ready to return to the ranks of its dinosaur brethren.
Before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, the region we now know as North Carolina was ruled by a fearsome, bipedal, 9-foot-long crocodile ancestor known as Carnufex carolinensis, or the "Carolina Butcher."…
