A rare Australian fossil is turning evolutionary theories upside down—could this change everything we know about life on ...

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Earth is not warming in a neat, even gradient. While the planet as a whole continues to heat up, one vast swath of the globe ...

Why has the seafloor around Bermuda been mysteriously high for tens of millions of years, long after its volcanoes went ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

The ancestors of our furry cats and dogs once looked similar to today's modern mongoose, a mammal with a long body and small, ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...

Scientists studied thousands of dinosaur footprints in Bolivia and uncovered how these animals moved, ran, and interacted on ...

"A bit like dinosaurs on Earth — they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a ...