The team named the new pterosaur species Eotephradactylus mcintireae. The generic name means ‘ash-winged dawn goddess’ and references the site’s volcanic ash and the animals’ position near the base of ...

Dating back more than 4,500 years, the skeleton belonged to a middle-aged man who may have worked as a potter and likely ...

Scientists have revealed the most scientifically accurate reconstructions of what ancient humans would have looked like.

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.

Among the remains of at least 110 mammoths (gargantuan creatures that reached three meters tall and weighed some six tons), ...

The researchers believe that Neanderthals, an extinct species of human known to have lived in that area as far back as ...

The hunting and gathering activities of early humans required a high-calorie diet consisting of a variety of ...

Records, court filings and emails reveal how federal review of Enbridge's Great Lakes tunnel project leaves tribal officials ...

"I asked my very experienced boss if he had ever seen that before, and he hadn't. So, I asked if he thought she was still ...

When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

A groundbreaking study of 7,000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef ...