Researchers made an extraordinary discovery of 9,000-year-old rocks with drawings etched into them, positioned next to ...

Consider it nature’s fitness challenge, but with scenery infinitely more rewarding than your neighborhood gym’s motivational posters. The transformation begins immediately upon starting your descent.

Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human ...

After comparing shapes, depths, and pressure patterns, this study found that two different hominin species left footprints in ...

Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human ...

Researchers in the Andes of Argentina discovered one of the oldest known dinosaurs as a species new to science. Lucas Fiorelli (CRILAR-CONICET), Martín Hechenleitner (CRILAR-CONICET) and Léa Leuzinger ...

For more than half a century, scientists have debated whether Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative known for its ...

Scientists discovered true teeth growing on the head of the spotted ratfish, a distant shark relative. The toothed structure, called a tenaculum, helps males hold onto females during mating. Genetic ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...

Researchers report Cretaceous insects trapped in amber from Ecuador’s Napo region, revealing a 112-million-year-old humid ...

Deep under the Jurassic rock beds of New South Wales, scientists discovered fossilized insects that push back the history of ...

A 230-million-year-old fossil found in Argentina shows that the evolution of sauropod dinosaurs’ long necks began earlier ...