Be it sci-fi, immigration or even artificial intelligence, the concept of aliens mirrors how we define fear, fascination and ...

Humans and our ancestors have been exposed to lead for 2 million years, but the toxic metal may have actually helped our ...

New research has revealed how more upright limb postures helped ancient reptiles overcome the biomechanical constraints of ...

Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to ...

Evolution is hard to model mathematically, but a new study may have found a way to do just that with some inspiration from an unlikely source.

A fresh analysis of a site in New Mexico provides a glimpse into the final days of the dinosaurs, showing their diversity before going extinct.

Since being discovered in 1994, Ardi’s 4.4-million-year-old remains have been at the heart of an anthropological debate. To ...

Paleontologists have uncovered the fossilized lower right canine of a large proborhyaenid sparassodont in the Taubaté Basin ...

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with ...