For over a decade, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek has woven a tapestry of ...

The extinct animal's face structure could help explain how vertebrates, including ourselves, evolved our distinctive look.

The fossils indicate that P. boisei ’s human-like hand proportions would have allowed it to handle stone tools with dexterity ...

A brilliant improvisation that instantly leveled the battlefield. Facing Germany's fearsome Tiger tank, Britain desperately ...

Many unexpected human artifacts have been preserved, for centuries, in vulture nests. This sandal woven from grasses and twigs, called an agobía, is somewhere between 727 and 771 years old, ...

That’s exactly what awaits at Fall Creek Falls State Park in Spencer, Tennessee – a sprawling 26,000-acre paradise that somehow manages to stay off most travelers’ radar despite housing some of the ...

By far the largest ever found of its kind, the spiny fossil predator "would have made enough scampi to feed an army," one ...

Cliff-rappelling scientists uncovered a crossbow bolt, part of a slingshot and 25 shoes in ancient vulture nesting sites ...

Understanding what the environment looked like millions of years ago is essential for piecing together how our earliest ...

Dan Buettner's iconic National Geographic cover story transformed our idea of what makes for a long, healthy life. It's now published online for the first time. OKINAWA, JAPANSquatting effortlessly on ...

Researchers often rely on fossil teeth for clues about what extinct animals ate. Giant ground sloths’ teeth have been tricky to analyze, though – until now.

Indigenous Australians may have been early "paleontologists," not big-game hunters, according to a new analysis ...