Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo ...

Researchers have identified a "tipping point" about 2.7 million years ago when global climate conditions switched from being ...

For more than a century, paleontologists have been piecing together how the mysterious predator Andrewsarchus is related to ...

A new study provides a clearer timeline for one of the most significant prehistoric sites worldwide for the study of human evolution. By integrating three advanced dating techniques, researchers have ...

The discovery could rewrite our understanding of North American human dispersion and and provide some insight into famed ...

In A Nutshell Mars was erupting while T. rex roamed Earth: A Martian volcano system was active between 64 and 50 million years ago, overlapping with the age of dinosaurs and early mammals on our ...

The pangolin is the only mammal on Earth covered in scales - living, flexible armor built from keratin. When threatened, it curls into a near-impenetrable ball, relying entirely on its biological ...

Can you imagine a place that is teeming with deadly snakes? Well, roughly 33 km off Brazil’s southeastern coast lies an ...

Why did mammoths and other contemporary mammals disappear? Throughout its eventful existence, Earth has experienced five ...

Upregulated expression of transcription factors promoting cone identity in late-stage retinal progenitors drives development of the cone-dominant retina of 13-lined ground squirrels.

Not a theme park. Not a museum. Not even a fenced attraction. Just towering metal creatures standing exactly where the desert allows them. Dinosaurs pause mid-stride, mammoths loom against open sky, ...