New research on mosasaurs, based on new technologies and fossil discoveries, sheds light on their evolution, feeding habits, ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

Fungus-farming ants, fossilized footprints and a prehistoric critter named after a Muppet are just a few of the year’s most notable findings ...

As we wind toward the year's end we often find ourselves thinking about the future, but sometimes it takes a rare nugget from ...

O n Earth today, there is only one species of humans. Us. Homo sapiens to use our scientific term. But this was not always the case – multiple species of humans existed at the same time for most of ...

An evolutionary biologist has challenged the long-held theory that the first humans came out of Africa. Dr. Huang Shi from ...