"Our results point to a scenario where Modern and Archaic should be regarded as populations of an otherwise common human ...

Tropical forests, often referred to as the "lungs of the Earth," are essential for sustaining life on our planet. They ...

Hundreds of perforated Cambrian shells reveal distinctive predator-prey dynamics in the ocean 517 million years ago.

SCIENTISTS believe that a species of hobbit people thought to have vanished 50,000 years ago could still be roaming the earth ...

The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit today challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s failure to assess harms to endangered wildlife and plants when determining the national ...

La Brea Tar Pits scientists have successfully identified a previously unknown species to Southern California through ...

Scientists have unearthed a remarkable fossil of a gorgonopsian, a saber-toothed predator they believe to be the oldest ever discovered.

Researchers on the vessel E/V Nautilus, operated by the Ocean Exploration Trust, were surprised to encounter a nautilus in ...

A new study led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History presents the oldest known example in the fossil record of an evolutionary arms race.

Scientists Discover a Football-Shaped Animal Species in a 500-Million-Year-Old Shale, Stunned by Its Massive Size ...

The fossil discovered is that of an extinct dolphin-like reptile estimated to have lived more than 100 million years ago in ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest known animal with saber teeth: a predator that lived 270 million years ago. This animal, from before the age of the dinosaurs, was a dog-like creature that was ...