Texas DOT recently found fossils of large prehistoric animals on a build site for the future Lubbock Loop 88 freeway. Details ...

For the first time ever, scientists have managed to determine the biological sex of an ancient human ancestor that lived in ...

Tourists find historic human remains near Edisto in area once known as Edingsville Beach. The bones are at MUSC in Charleston ...

Call me crazy, uneducated, or what-have-you, but I thought the ancient Megalodon shark was just a myth. A fabled creature, ...

For years, it was known as the Puntledge River fossil. From its discovery in 1988 by a father-daughter duo, right up to the ...

A new study of the Gobi Wall in the Gobi highland desert of Mongolia reveals a multifunctional role beyond defense; data from ...

A large international team of anthropologists, evolutionary theorists, biologists, and historians has identified gender and ...

A fossilized elephant skull found in the Kashmir Valley is reshaping how scientists understand an ancient giant’s past.

By studying proteins preserved in teeth, researchers determined the sex of four Paranthropus robustus individuals that lived ...

Buried deep in a South African cave, 2.2 million-year-old teeth may hold the genetic signature of a mysterious human relative ...

From this type of sample, ancient DNA techniques enable the reconstruction of human and pathogen genomes from the past. In ...

Scientists have successfully extracted ancient proteins from two-million-year-old teeth, a breakthrough providing previously unobtainable details on ...