Little Foot is a near-complete Australopithecus skeleton — the most complete ever discovered — from South Africa. Researchers ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

Another twist has been added to the puzzling mix that is early human ancestry with evidence that one of the most complete pre ...

Specimen found in South Africa was widely thought to be member of ape-like human ancestor family that lived nearly 2 million ...

Carbon emissions from the films were equivalent to running 5,019 cars for a year, reveals data from the government and the ...

From fish to Phish, Science Friday has had a big year. Our staff chose their favorite Science Friday stories and projects ...

It’s hard to overstate how rare and exciting a dinosaur mummy is. And yes, the fossil called “Medusa” could be a dinosaur mummy — the remains of an Edmontosaurus about 66 million years ...

New University of Maryland research suggests that dinosaur parenting strategies helped transform the Mesozoic world, as “latchkey kid dinosaurs” spread into ecological niches their parents left ...