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

A strange Cambrian fossil named Salterella may hold the key to understanding how early animals first built skeletons. As the season of skeletons approaches, it’s worth remembering that the real “age ...

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

Skeleton season may be just around the corner, but the skeleton age dawned with the early Cambrian Period, about 538 million ...

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

A new study from Washington University in St. Louis published in Communications Biology presents compelling evidence to ...

In their collaborative and solo projects, currently on view at Pioneer Works in New York, Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne cheekily ...

The Energy UK conference heard from leading politicians as consensus on climate action becomes increasingly fractured.

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

We thought hippos went extinct in Central Europe around 115,000 years ago, but new fossil finds tell a different story.

Highly detailed fossils are typically found in shale or other fine-grained sedimentary rocks. These ones? They’re made of iron.

A new climbing reptile from the Jurassic period, Sphenodraco scandentis, has been discovered following the reconstruction of ...