A 7.2-million-year-old femur found in Bulgaria reveals early signs of upright walking and reopens the debate on human origins.

For the first time, researchers have digitally reconstructed the facial fragments of the individual, who belonged to the Australopithecus genus ...

A nearly complete dinosaur skeleton discovered in Patagonia is helping scientists crack the mystery of alvarezsaurs, a bizarre group of bird-like dinosaurs. The fossil of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis ...

Oil prices are spiking again, this time because of the war unfolding in the Middle East. What would happen, however, if we could end our reliance on oil for good? People have been ...

For more than a century, stories have circulated about unusually large human skeletons discovered in ancient burial sites. Old newspaper reports and historical accounts describe massive bones that ...

A rare looping dinosaur trackway in Colorado reveals new clues about sauropod movement and hints that the massive animal may have walked with a limp.

The discovery of two ancient fish in South China has re-written what we thought we knew about the evolution of early vertebrates.

Jonathan, a Seychelles giant tortoise living on Saint Helena, has reached the remarkable age of 194, making him the oldest living land animal on Earth. Jonathan remains a beloved resident of Saint ...

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