“Ankle bones of Purgatorius exhibit features that indicate it lived in trees, so we initially thought its absence south of Montana could be related to the sweeping devastation of forests from the ...

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

Their species name is well known, but until recently we’ve understood very little for certain about Homo habilis. Columnist ...

If you thought that crocodiles were menacing enough, be glad that you didn’t live in Arizona some 225–201 million years ...

Tiny fossil teeth from Colorado are revealing new clues about the very first relatives of primates, including humans.

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed in a cave.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ (AZFamily) — Students in the East Valley are teaming up to do Something Good by hosting a fundraising event for brain tumor research this Saturday. Students Supporting Brain Tumor ...

Kehlani Rogers went missing from her home on Friday, Feb. 20 Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like Bustle, LAMag ...

Michael Bayne was found dead 20-minutes' drive from his home in Tempe, Arizona Michael Bayne/Facebook Michael Bayne was found dead in Mesa, Arizona, on Friday, Feb. 20 Concerned family members had ...

A newly discovered Spinosaurus species has revealed that the iconic Jurassic Park predator might not have been fully aquatic but more like a “hell heron” that waded through shallower waters. The ...

In a recent study, University of Alaska Fairbanks paleontologist Matthew Wooller and his colleagues radiocarbon-dated what they thought were pieces of two mammoth vertebrae, only to get a whale of a ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...