Learn more about the ancient remains of three Homo sapiens and how they may have died in the Afar Rift of Ethiopia.

Learn how this Argentine fossil documents one of the first Jurassic brachiosaurids from South America and reveals unexpected ...

Sometime around 210 million years ago, in what is now the badlands of New Mexico, a mudslide froze an ancient ecosystem in ...

A hidden Roman sanctuary has been discovered beneath a school in Germany, which could shed light on chilling ancient rituals.

Why is most music 120 BPM? A new study discovers a universal communication tempo of 2 hertz shared by fireflies, crickets, and humans due to neural resonance.

A massive, bus-sized “terror croc” that once preyed on dinosaurs has been brought back to life in stunning detail with the ...

A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a ...

Baby Psittacosaurus dinosaurs swallowed stones to digest plants early in life, revealing adult-like feeding habits from birth ...

The study of ancient cultures around Ethiopia during the Middle Stone Age (MSA) time period is important for understanding ...

More than two decades after scientists identified a fossil as the world’s oldest octopus — officials now say it wasn’t one at ...

A small fossil snake may hold outsized clues about snake evolution, behavior, and an ancient ecosystem that looked nothing ...

A monumental archaeological excavation in Africa has uncovered the lives of the humans who lived there 100,000 years ago.