Researcher Cazenave emphasizes, "these fossils show that this species, comparable to modern humans, walked upright but was extremely small in size."
Researchers say the fossil suggests a previously unknown human species lived in Europe over one million years ago.
Skeleton shows Mixodectes pungens lived in trees and primarily ate leaves during the Paleocene epoch, highlighting its unique ecological niche after the dinosaurs.
Paleontologists uncovered fossils of a new species of long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur named Chadititan calvoi in northern Patagonia.
Bone analysis reveals the Elgol dinosaur is a 166-million-year-old ornithopod.
Study provides earliest evidence of multiple oviraptorosaurs co-existing in North America.
The fossil has been named Jeholia longchengi after its discovery site in the Jehol Biota of Longcheng District in Liaoning Province.
Paleontologists believe that Leioproctus barrydonovani inhabited broadleaf forests surrounding a Miocene maar lake—a crater formed by a volcanic explosion.
Over 600 fossilized footprints of species like elephants and giraffes suggest Tarifa was a transit corridor in the Early Pleistocene.
The seized fossils include teeth from extinct marine reptiles like mosasaurus and zarafasaura oceanis.