Scientists exploring Romania’s Hațeg Basin have discovered one of the densest dinosaur fossil sites ever found, with bones ...

Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

At a site called East Farm in England, recent excavations revealed reddened silt, flint handaxes distorted by heat, and fragments of a mineral—iron pyrite—that could have been used to make sparks on ...

A research team led by Prof. ZHU Min—member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and affiliated with the CAS Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP)—has identified a new ...

One of the most important steps in the evolution of modern mammals was the development of highly sensitive hearing. The middle ear of mammals, with an eardrum and several small bones, allows us to ...

A new fossil mega catalog from the Omo-Turkana Basin in East Africa pulls together 1,231 ancient bones and teeth. That single basin now holds roughly one in three hominins, humans and their closest ...

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with 28,000 other fossils. The skull cap of 'Java Man' was discovered by Eugène ...

“Experts have long debated the date that humans arrived in Australia,” said LiveScience. Now a study using DNA from both ancient and modern Aboriginal people across Oceania may have finally “settled ...

Giving a young kid a smartphone may be a big mistake. New research conducted by scientists from UC Berkeley and Columbia University found that children 12 years old and younger who received one of ...

The funds will go to the government's Invest America plan. In a major philanthropic move, billionaires Michael and Susan Dell are donating $6.25 billion to deposit $250 into savings accounts for up to ...