In 1984, an amateur paleontologist in Scotland found a remarkable specimen: a nearly complete fossil of what looked to be a ...

The university has agreed to relinquish ownership of two 175-year-old daguerreotypes of an enslaved father named Renty and his daughter Delia.

The Afro-Asiatic wildcat (Felis lybica) is the world’s most widely distributed wildcat, but experts and information on the ...

Fossilized tracks from an early reptile are now the oldest known reptilian tracks, meaning the tetrapod ancestor most likely ...

Cats and dogs are believed to share a common ancestor, the miacid, a carnivoran. Carnivorans split into two suborders, cats and cat-like animals and dogs and dog-like animals, and dogs and cats ...

This artist's rendering shows hands of early human ancestors, called Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi, found in South Africa. The left images show photos of the bones, and the right images show ...

The rapid growth of the T. rex ancestors likely came after the extinction of other giant predators, the carcharodontosaurids, making the tyrannosaurs the apex predators. According to the study ...

This discovery offers intriguing insights into the potential rhythmic abilities of our last common ancestor, shared some six million years ago. Analysis of 371 drumming bouts by chimpanzees ...

Previous estimates dated the spears to 300,000 years ago so scientists thought the weapons belonged to a group of early humans called Homo heidelbergensis—thought to be the last common ancestor ...

Let’s clear the air. Benzene, a harmful chemical found in gasoline, cigarette smoke and paint strippers, is a known carcinogen. Long-term exposure to high levels of benzene has been linked to ...