Cambrian fossils from the Kuanchuanpu Formation reveal details of early nervous system evolution in ecdysozoans ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering ...

The origins of life on Earth have long fascinated scientists, particularly the nature of the last universal common ancestor ...

Three-million-year-old tools found in Kenya reveal early humans' ability to cut food, butcher meat, and adapt to new diets.

There’s another form of fossil evidence that has taught us about dinosaur sex: soft tissue fossils of their genitalia. Or, to be specific, really just one so far: a remarkable fossil Psittacosaurus ...

In 1900, three lighthouse keepers vanished from a remote island off the coast of Scotland. There are many theories as to their ultimate fate, each more disturbing than the last.

Ironically, given the urban wildfire wiping out huge areas of Los Angeles, man’s control of his environment began with the “domestication of fire” by Homo erectus about a million years ago. And the ...