Our faces don’t just distinguish us from other people, but other species as well. Neanderthals bore stout jaws and broad noses, their features jutting forward like cliffs of bone. Chimpanzees, our ...

The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first ...

Molecules from the 20-million-year-old teeth of a rhino relative are among the oldest ever sequenced, opening tantalizing ...

A new dinosaur fossil at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science was found buried hundreds of feet under the facility's parking ...

Both research teams recovered the ancient proteins from tooth enamel, the hardest substance in vertebrates’ bodies, in ...

“Ancient DNA has produced a revolution in our understanding of recent human origins,” said Daniel Green, field program ...

Chimpanzees have been observed following “fashion trends” in the same way humans might do, research has revealed. Eight ...

The 209-million-year-old fossil offers clues to the evolution of the reptiles, which have more than 150 named species ...