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

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 ...

A clay layer one-hundredth of an inch thick preserves the fleshy details of dinosaurs buried suddenly in east-central Wyoming ...

Edmontosaurus, which munched plants with its broad and flat snout that vaguely resembled a duckbill, roamed western North ...

Parasites have roamed the Earth for a long time. They were here before the dinosaurs: The oldest fossils are more than 500 ...

Analysis of a 4.4-million-year-old ankle bone supports the hypothesis that the earliest humans evolved from an ape-like ...

Jack Horner inspired a character in Jurassic Park after the dino discovery of a lifetime. Jack Horner inspired a character in ...

Human history, the human brain, the human hand, and the human leg, all start in the forest canopy, explains author Harriet ...

There’s a magical place in Mississippi’s capital city where the chaos of modern life simply melts away the moment you arrive. LeFleur’s Bluff State Park and its crown jewel, Mayes Lake, offer an ...

Hidden in plain sight within Mississippi’s capital city lies a natural paradise that feels worlds away from urban life. LeFleur’s Bluff State Park and its crown jewel, Mayes Lake, offer a wilderness ...

For more than a century, scientists have been piecing together the puzzle of human evolution, examining fossil evidence to ...

Australian researchers tested shark-bite resistant wetsuit materials on two of the ocean's most ferocious predators - white ...