The shared ancestor of our species, the Neanderthals and the Denisovans may be far older than we thought – which could ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

It's time to rewrite the family tree, as scientists have revealed that our species is even older than we thought. In a new ...

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that ...

A construction project at San Pedro High School in Los Angeles revealed nearly 9-million-year-old sea creature fossils buried ...

Nicknamed Elton and formally named Thikarisuchus xenodentes, the fossil reveals a predator no longer than two feet, with a ...

The newly-discovered penguin species went extinct when the ice age hit, but researchers don't think the cold was to blame for their demise.

Learn more about Homo habilis, and how AI may have proved that this early human was likely leopard prey.

Paleontologists in Argentina have discovered a new predatory dinosaur -- the fossils of which contained a crocodile bone ...

Paleontologists in Argentina have discovered a new predatory dinosaur -- the fossils of which contained a crocodile bone within the dinosaur's mouth.

During the course of evolution, the mammalian cranio-mandibular secondary joint—formed by the dentary condyle and the ...

New dinosaur fossil uncovered in Argentina sheds light on ancient predators. It provides insight into mysterious group of ...