© Philipp Gunz/MPI EVA Leipzig Who came before us? This question has always intrigued scientists. Fossils recently unearthed ...

Newly described wormlike fossils dating back over half a billion years might be our oldest ancestors, and researchers have ...

Dinosaur footprints have always been mysterious, but a new AI app is cracking their secrets. DinoTracker analyzes photos of fossil tracks and predicts which dinosaur made them, with accuracy rivaling ...

If true, this would make The Prince fossil the oldest known example of a modern human killed by a wild animal, and possibly ...

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

Early hominins in Europe were creating tools from raw materials hundreds of thousands of years before Homo sapiens arrived ...

In the shadow of a coal mine in southern Greece, archaeologists discovered the oldest known handheld wooden tools ever found.

We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour ...

Parts of ancient Earth may have formed continents and recycled crust through subduction far earlier than previously thought.

Flying is really hard work. Compared to walking, swimming, or running, flying is the form of movement that takes the most energy and requires the most calories. That means that birds have had to ...

Analysis of federal data by a nonprofit watchdog group found that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has drastically ...