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 ...

Long before humans evolved, a small eel shaped creature swimming in ancient seas carried eyes that look strikingly familiar.

For more than half a century, some of Earth’s strangest fossils looked like they had washed in from an alien world. Pillow-shaped impressions, quilted fronds and ribbed disks sat in museum drawers, ...

Neanderthals repeatedly returned to the cave to store horned animal skulls, revealing this cultural tradition was transmitted over time.

Some 150 million years ago sauropods dramatically shaped the dinosaur ecosystem in what is now the western U.S., according to ...

Recent digs revealed roughly 20 feet of a long-necked dinosaur's skeleton, and paleontologists suspect even more bones are ...

Here, things get interesting, as just recently it was announced that two remarkably intact dinosaurs had been discovered in Wyoming’s “mummy zone”. The region was subject to the perfect storm of flash ...

New research conducted by paleontologists from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the CNRS ...

The New Scientist Book Club's February read is Tim Winton's novel Juice, set in a future Australia that is so hot it is almost unliveable. Here, the author lays out his reasons for writing it – and wh ...

First, dinosaur tracks aged around 140 million years were reported in 2025 on a remote stretch of the coast in South Africa’s ...