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

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

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 trove of specimens from New Mexico may help settle a long-running argument about the diversity of dinosaurs before their ...

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

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

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

Lucy Powell has won Labour's deputy leadership election after a campaign based on a call for the party to change course. The ...

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

For over a century, a peculiar fossil has been a source of intrigue and debate among paleontologists. Its unusual ...

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