Archaeologists in China uncover 573 ancient stone fortresses, shedding light on early settlement patterns and social ...

Ancient supercontinent Nuna's breakup around 1.5 billion years ago set off a chain of events that made Earth more habitable, ...

Flinders University fossil experts have unearthed more clues about why kangaroos and wallabies have endured to become one of ...

An extinct snake has slithered its way out of obscurity over four decades after its discovery. The newly described species of ...

Over 500 million years ago, the Cambrian Period sparked an explosion of skeletal creativity. Salterella, a peculiar fossil, ...

This 375-million-year-old fish, the closest known relative of the ancestors of limbed animals such as humans, likely evolved the foundation for rear legs even before the move to land, researchers say.

Scientists in Argentina discovered the oldest known long-necked dinosaur, Huayracursor jaguensis, revealing a much earlier ...

Recent studies reveal that early humans didn’t just replace one another, they interbred. Fossils and DNA show hybridization ...

“We found that dogs were already remarkably diverse in their skull shapes and sizes more than 11,000 years ago — long before ...

Paleolithic tools found at the Namorotukunan site in Kenya suggest that early Homo species kept their technology going even ...

New research shows that the superior colliculus, a primitive brain region, can independently interpret visual information.