Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...

We often tell ourselves a comforting story about the history of disease: it’s the price of civilization. For most of human ...

This space rock somehow broke the speed limit.

Despite 2026 being America’s 250th birthday, I think when Americans take a trip abroad, we’re often a little overwhelmed by ...

Before life as we know it began, early humans walked the Earth at the same time as woolly mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers. Through several prehistoric eras they lived, hunted and evolved, leaving ...

In 2025, scientists have named several new dinosaur species and are learning new facts about the remarkable lives of dinosaurs. Paleontologists have found a 'Dragon price' dinosaur — which may be a ...

The search for life on Earth is speeding up, not slowing down. Scientists are now identifying more than 16,000 new species each year, revealing far more biodiversity than expected across animals, ...

A recent discovery at Lake Turkana in Kenya has scientists thinking there may have been two ancestral human species — or hominins — coexisting together. Thanks to a patch of wet silt that was buried ...

Richard Butler receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust, the European Commission and the British Institute for Libyan and Northern African Studies. In 2025, dinosaurs were everywhere. In May, the ...