Space contains objects far more extreme than our Sun, including neutron stars, pulsars, quasars, white dwarfs, and black ...

A newly described Patagonian fossil reveals the evolutionary origins and global spread of the tiny alvarezsaur dinosaurs.

Our story may not begin in Africa after all.

While the human remains in the coffin were not those of an elite member of society (as they had once been thought to be), ...

Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia, have helped scientists track down two animals that were thought to have gone extinct thousands of years ago: a relative of Australia’s greater glider and a ...

The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like ...

Known as Tanyka amnicola, this lake-dweller with twisted jaws and teeth pointed outward lived in Gondwana 275 million years ...

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 rare ancient document from Sudan confirms the historical existence of King Qashqash, a Nubian ruler once known only from ...

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