Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa ...

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists ...

A tiny Caribbean ant fossil, Basiceros enana, trapped in amber reveals a lost species and rewrites the evolutionary history.

A pair of Edmontosaurus specimens found in a Wyoming dig help researchers to understand the process that led them to be ...

New Zealand’s ancient bowerbird was smaller and more slender than the species living in Australia and New Guinea today.

New dating has revealed that New Mexico's last dinosaurs were healthy, diverse and thriving at the end of the Cretaceous ...

A new study sheds light on how these reptiles become “mummies” and paints a picture of what these ancient animals looked like ...

An amateur fossil hunter in Prince Edward Island has found an animal footprint believed to be the oldest of its type ever ...

New research finds that ocean-dwelling fish entered freshwater environments on several occasions, evolving enhanced hearing abilities in the process. When ancient marine fish transitioned from ...

US fossil fuel giants produce most of their oil and gas domestically but pay billions more in taxes overseas than they do at ...