Tunas did not become large, fast and warm-blooded simply because an asteroid cleared the oceans of competing predators. Their ...

A new Homo floresiensis study suggests the extinct "hobbit" scavenged Komodo dragon kills instead of hunting large prey or using fire.

✅ Know Your Terms: Hominin refers to all humans, plus our ancestral species who walked upright on two feet (including members of the genera Homo, Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and Ardipithecus ).

Pterosaurs ruled the air long before birds did, and over more than 100 million years they grew into everything from small fliers to giants with wingspans above 10 meters. That range should have ...

For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

Megalodon’s enormous size is estimated from limited fossils, including vertebrae and teeth. (lexaarts/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) In 1978, a wonder emerged from the crumbling earth of the Gram ...

The only other thing I remember was that it wasn’t a child’s book, but it was fascinating – the mystery remains one of my ...

For years, the Denisovans occupied an unusual place in the story of human evolution. They were recognised as one of our ...

The artist’s new museum, Dataland, is a joyful monument to A.I. Is he a visionary, or Silicon Valley’s court painter?

If someone told you that you could spend an afternoon hunting for fossils older than dinosaurs without leaving Michigan, would you believe them? Rockport State Recreation Area in Alpena proves it’s ...

This potentially all-female burial site opens up new questions regarding Homo naledi’s culture and social structure. If the chamber was reserved just for females, it could imply a level of complex and ...