Lead exposure sounds like a modern problem, at least if you define “modern” the way a paleoanthropologist might: a time that ...

For more than a century, scientists have been piecing together the puzzle of human evolution, examining fossil evidence to ...

Scientists have uncovered a 151-million-year-old midge fossil in Australia that challenges long-held views about insect ...

In his laboratory at the University of Poitiers in France, Abderrazak El Albani contemplates the rock glittering in his hands ...

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously ...

Scientists at MIT have uncovered compelling evidence that ancient sea sponges were Earth's first animals. Chemical fossils ...

Learn about a new world’s first: a South African rock hyrax that scooted its way into the fossil record and is highlighting ...

Hyraceum may be tens of thousands of years old, and can be regarded as a threatened, non-renewable resource. The middens, being sensitive to environmental changes and containing fossil pollen and ...

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology analysed chemical fossils from more than 541 million years ago.

At a certain point in Earth’s distant past, the planet’s assortment of organic molecules and compounds aligned to create the ...