This story appears in the August 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine ... is in a region already so famous for its ancient human fossils that it is often referred to as the Cradle of ...

For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were ...

With this booty stuffed into the helicopter, the human cargo settled onto the ... When confronted with a charge of poaching fossils in Kolyma National Park, Fyodor jauntily assured the officers ...

While in search of dinosaur fossils ... was part of the team that found the fossil, the discovery is testament to the success of the frog life cycle, per National Geographic.

The discovery that the Ushikawa fossils are not human means the oldest human fossils found on the Japanese mainland are from a limestone quarry near the Japanese city of Hamakita, about 25 miles ...

Now, a newly discovered human fossil found in Northern Israel suggests ... the University of New South Wales in Australia, told National Geographic. “Together with the discovery last year ...

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead, they are ...