Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...

Scientists have successfully extracted ancient proteins from two-million-year-old teeth, a breakthrough providing previously unobtainable details on ...

Researchers analyzed fossils and DNA to get a big-picture view of sloth evolution and determine what drove their immense size ...

These human ancestors would have had plenty to take advantage of near these ancient rivers. Trees bore fruit all year, and ...

Fossils discovered beneath the Madura Strait in Indonesia reveal a previously unknown population of Homo erectus inhabiting ...