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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

By evaluating fossils, scientists are learning what creature features may have been used to attract mates and fight off sexual competitors ...

A remarkable discovery in Morocco has shed light on a mysterious ancient marine predator, Carinodens acrodon, a small but ...

Researchers have found nearly every plant part they need to trace the prehistoric history of a 47 million-year-old "alien ...

Once found in the jungles of Africa, researchers in South America have now discovered links tying these extinct primates to the continent—painting an incredible story of survival against the odds.

Paleontologists have unearthed the 30,000-year-old fossilized remains of what may be the smallest cat ever known to have existed. The fossilized lower jaw fragment was unearthed within the Hualongdong ...