Palaeontology is the study of prehistoric species, mostly ones that are extinct. It focuses primarily on fossil data, using a variety of physical, chemical and biological techniques to analyse them.

A Catholic in Indonesia’s Christian-dominated East Nusa Tenggara province has been accused of blasphemy after he criticized a diocese for evicting indigenous people from their land. Members of the ...

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According to the PMNH, the study resulted in collection of 3265 well-preserved large and small foraminifera’s specimens of different species, 80 specimens of Gastropods and 65 specimens of fossil ...

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The fossil was unearthed in the 1950s in a former lignite mining area in the Geiseltal in Germany. It was initially misclassified and thus led a shadowy existence until its rediscovery.

Research led by the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Ohio University has found evidence of hominin activity at a Romanian fossil site dating to at least 1.95 million years ago.

Heavy seasonal rain from about October to March frequently causes flooding and landslides in Indonesia, an archipelago of 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near ...

In the Muslim-majority country of Indonesia, the island of Flores is something of an exception. Located in the south of the archipelago, its population is 70 percent Catholic and many young people ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In this photo released by Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB), rescuers carry the body ...

At the time, paleontologist Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach (1871-1952) assigned the fossil to the genus Carcharodontosaurus, meaning shark-toothed lizard. Measuring about 10 metres long ...

The Sterkfontein excavation site, which exposes the ancient deposits that once formed underground and contain Australopithecus fossils. The fossil-bearing red sediments clearly contrast with the grey ...