New imaging has upended a decades-old assumption about Japan’s earliest “humans.” The finding doesn’t erase the past—it ...

In 2002, a research team discovered one of the oldest human ancestors ever, called Sahelanthropus. For over twenty years, ...

The fossils indicate that P. boisei ’s human-like hand proportions would have allowed it to handle stone tools with dexterity ...

The extinct animal's face structure could help explain how vertebrates, including ourselves, evolved our distinctive look.

Eotephradactylus mcintireae, also known as the "ash-winged dawn goddess," is the oldest known pterosaur in North America, having lived 209 million years ago during the Late Triassic period. This is a ...

Argentinian researchers have described a Carnian theropod with features previously thought to belong only to much later ...

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has astonished scientists by breaking one of chemistry's oldest principles. A new study by researchers from Chalmers University of Technology in Swed ...

But in over 10,000 recordings of wildlife on the African savannah, 95 percent of the species observed responded with far more ...

Analysis of a 4.4-million-year-old ankle bone supports the hypothesis that the earliest humans evolved from an ape-like ...

Down in California, the San Andreas Fault marks the boundary where the North American and Pacific plates are sliding past ...

Deep in the Arabian Desert lie thousands of enigmatic stone megastructures whose true form is visible only from the sky.