A new study provides a clearer timeline for one of the most significant prehistoric sites worldwide for the study of human ...

Deep in the heart of the Sahara, scientists have uncovered Spinosaurus mirabilis — a spectacular new predator crowned with a ...

A team led by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin has produced what may be the strongest evidence yet that the ...

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

Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the evolution of the vertebrate eye. New research suggests that it traces back to a cyclopean invertebrate with a single eye atop the head.

Millions of years before the Sahara became a desert, it was a vibrant ecosystem. Bordering the ancient Tethys Sea, which broke up the supercontinent Pangaea, the region was home to massive dinosaurs, ...

A new study explains how climbing down trees helped shape upright posture in early primates and changed the course of evolution.

Archaeologists at the Lancashire have uncovered new details about the identity of an 11,000-year-old individual known as the ...

To sort the earliest branches of the dinosaur family tree, paleontologists compare skeletons piece by piece. They build ...

Ancient DNA shows that hunter-gatherers in northwestern Europe endured for millennia, with women driving a gradual cultural shift toward farming.