Oct 12, 2017 by Natali Anderson

An international team of paleontologists from the United States, Australia and Tanzania has discovered a new species of hyaenodont that lived 25 million...

Aug 24, 2017 by News Staff

A new species of long-necked titanosaurian dinosaur has been unearthed in southwestern Tanzania. Life reconstruction of Shingopana songwensis. Image credit:...

May 1, 2017 by News Staff

Scientists working in Tanzania have discovered and named two new species of the mole-rat genus Fukomys. The research was published in the journal PeerJ. The...

Apr 13, 2017 by News Staff

Paleontologists have long wondered what the earliest dinosaur relatives looked like. Most assumed that they would look like dwarf dinosaurs and walk on...

Sep 27, 2016 by News Staff

A multinational team of researchers has uncovered fossil proteins dating back 3.8 million years — a discovery that will enhance future understanding...

Jun 28, 2016 by Natali Anderson

A team of researchers from Durham University, the University of Oxford, and the exploration company Helium One has discovered a world-class helium gas...

Jun 24, 2016 by Natali Anderson

An international team of paleontologists has discovered the oldest known examples of ‘fungus gardens’ within 25 million-year-old fossilized termite...

Jun 23, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of archaeologists studying bone artifacts discovered in a cave on the island of Unguja in the Zanzibar archipelago of Tanzania has found evidence...

Apr 6, 2016 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists has found that fossilized leg bones of Asilisaurus kongwe — a dinosaur cousin that lived during the Middle Triassic epoch...

Mar 10, 2016 by News Staff

Life in what is now Tanzania was difficult and dangerous 1.8 million years ago, according to a team of scientists from the United States, Switzerland and...

Feb 4, 2016 by Natali Anderson

A team of scientists led by Dr. Michele Menegon of the Museo delle Scienze in Trento, Italy, has described a previously undocumented species of chameleon...

Aug 19, 2015 by News Staff

A fossil specimen unearthed at the Philip Tobias Korongo site, Olduvai Gorge, could be the oldest ‘anatomically modern’ human hand bone, says an international...

Jun 9, 2015 by News Staff

More than 28,000 volunteers have helped scientists create a catalogue of more than 1.2 million camera trap images from Serengeti National Park, a UNESCO...

Mar 30, 2015 by News Staff

A new study published online March 26 in the Journal of Human Evolution suggests that the genus Homo has come in different sizes since its origins over...

Jan 21, 2015 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists headed by Dr Sterling Nesbitt of Virginia Tech has described a new genus and species of archosaur that lived in what is today...

Sep 9, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of titanosaurian dinosaur that lived during the middle of the Cretaceous period, about 100 million years...

Dec 6, 2013 by News Staff

A 1.34-million-year-old partial skeleton of the Plio-Pleistocene hominin Paranthropus boisei – including arm, hand, leg and foot fragments – found...

Nov 12, 2013 by News Staff

According to geologists led by Dr Antonio Simonetti from the University of Notre Dame, a detailed analysis of calcite-rich minerals from the 120-million-year-old...

May 16, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Ohio University-led scientists have uncovered fossils of two new species of ancient primates, named Rukwapithecus fleaglei and Nsungwepithecus gunnelli,...

May 6, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A new doctoral thesis by Eva-Marie Ström from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden is the first attempt ever to explore Ndengeleko, a language that...