Sonselasuchus cedrus, discovered in fossils from Arizona, was a crocodile relative from the Triassic period that grew into an ...

Warmer waters in the Pacific Ocean may have brought devastating floods to the cradle of ancient Chinese civilization, ...

Burned crusts on ancient pottery reveal that Stone Age people cooked fish together with berries, seeds, and other plants.

Ancient European hunter-gatherers were far more advanced in their cooking methods than previously thought, a new study has ...

A single femur found in Bulgaria appears to represent an ape or early hominin that walked on two legs before any known African hominin, but the evidence is far from conclusive ...

The Earth brims with extraordinary creatures, but none captivate the imagination quite like its largest animals. Dominating the oceans, the blue whale reigns supreme as the biggest creature ever to ...

Scientists discovered some of the oldest bony fish fossils in China. The fossils explain the early history of animals with backbones.

That visibility comes with scrutiny. Mammals are among the best-studied organisms on Earth - and among the most threatened.

Around 40,000 years ago, Paleolithic people inscribed bone with symbols that appear to be part of some sort of writing system.

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

John Robortella is a member of the Canandaigua History Alliance and a contributor to the town’s monthly newsletter. He grew up in Rochester “decades ago,” but remembers his ...