Academics seek to study rare find to learn about significance of such remains in early human culture; Antiquities Authority says fossil will go on display after preservation

If confirmed, study would show life on Earth might have emerged a mere 300 million years after planet's formation

An ancient vertebra from an archaic hominin species child gives 'unambiguous' evidence of migrations out of Africa, Israeli researchers say

Scientists manage to date seeds discovered in fossilized prints, giving a more definitive time frame to question of when people first arrived in Americas

Geologist Elizabeth Turner discovered the rocks containing ancient sponges in a remote region of the Northwest Territories accessible only by helicopter

Discovery of fossils of cold-climate rodents alongside remains of region's 1st modern humans shows they arrived from hot cradle of Africa during Ice Age, but were able to adapt

New research technique employed at Hebrew University allowed team to gauge temperature in which eggs were formed -- and thus whether mother could regulate her body heat

Scientists say LCH, which affects human children today, discovered in fossil of 66-million-year-old Hadrosaurus

Chunk of skull thought to be 210,000 years old, making it at least 16,000 years older than jawbone found in Israel; some scientists not convinced fossil's reported age is correct

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