A portion of an ancient human skull was discovered earlier this year along a riverbank in rural Indiana, local officials ...

Many thousands of years ago, the Sarasota-Manatee area was home to a diverse mix of now-extinct mammals—most notably, saber-tooth cats, mastodons and giant ground sloths called Megatherium, which ...

A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in ... they positioned Yunxian 2 with Asian fossils such as Dali, Jinniushan, and the giant Harbin skull. These include what scientists have now ...

"The pace of change we’re seeing today is unlike anything we know of in the past 66 million years," said ecologist Jack ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

A groundbreaking study of 7,000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: As sharks declined by 75 percent and fish preferred by humans ...

Humans stand apart from many other primates by taking more time to mature, relying on a supportive network during a long period of childhood.