What did the face of our ancestors look like three million years ago? Our international team has answered this question by ...

The newly discovered fish fossil fills a key gap in our understanding of the evolution of vertebrate diversity.

NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent roughly six months exploring a geological feature on Mars known as boxwork: a vast network of low rock ridges, about 3–6 feet (1–2 meters) tall, crisscrossing the ...

A sediment-washing “bubbler” helped researchers recover 65.5-million-year-old teeth that illuminate how early primate relatives spread after the mass extinction.

New minuscule fossils of Purgatorius, the earliest-known relative of all primates—including humans—have been unearthed in a ...

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

A nearly complete 90-million-year-old dinosaur fossil from Patagonia, Alnashetri, reveals how alvarezsaurs evolved and shrank over time.

New research shows that the earliest sponges were soft bodied and lacked skeletons, explaining why their oldest fossils are ...

If someone showed you photos of Onyx Cave without context, you’d probably assume they were concept art from the latest space ...

That means if aliens were to exist, and they were located some 66 million light-years from Earth, they’d theoretically still ...

Researchers have found new data to support the "drunken monkey" hypothesis; the idea that human attraction to alcohol may be ...