Uranium dating places the age of the Petralona skull at 300,000 years, revealing a human lineage distinct from Neanderthals ...

Traces of the unknown new genome were detected in two teeth and a finger bone of a Denisovan, which was discovered in a Siberian cave. There is not much data available about the appearance of ...

Researchers at Vidyasagar University in Midnapore have identified a new plant species in the Ajodhya Hills and have named it ...

Image compiled from various Creative Commons sources. For centuries, researchers have painstakingly worked to fill out the ...

A type of mussel found nearly 10 years ago in Randolph and Montgomery county waters has been determined through long study to be a previously unknown species. In 2016, during a routine mussel survey ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern-day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years ...

Scientists are researching ways to genetically modify plants and animals to be more resistant to threats like climate change.

Researchers analyzed the DNA of the shrimp and realized they’d discovered a new species: Bigelowina komaii, or Komai’s mantis shrimp. Komai’s mantis shrimp can reach about 3 inches in length, the ...

Researchers believe the new species may spend its entire life in the dark zone of their caves where no light reaches, according to a study.

This is the account of the discovery of a skull that has the potential to change what we know about human evolution, and a suppression and cover-up which followed. In 1959, in an area called ...

A conversation with the legendary evolutionary thinker and archaeologist, Eudald Carbonell. By Jan Ritch-Frel and Deborah ...