A newly described Patagonian fossil reveals the evolutionary origins and global spread of the tiny alvarezsaur dinosaurs.

Scientists analyze fossils and vocal tract models to reconstruct what prehistoric humans may have sounded like millions of years ago.

The burial sites weren’t visible to the human eye, but a suite of technological tools found subtle differences in Czech farmland.

Do the bones of all Nile crocodiles have the same number of growth marks as their age? And can such growth rings be counted to accurately gauge the age of these reptiles? Is this also an accurate ...

While many people are fixated on the future, there’s still plenty that we don’t know about the past. After all, our planet ...

New fossil discoveries in the Balkans suggest that the first human ancestors may have originated in Europe rather than Africa ...

A research team led by Dr. Márton Rabi from the Biogeology Department of the University of Tübingen, together with Máté ...

Homo erectus skulls from China’s Yunxian archaeological site revealed ages close to two million years—a million years older ...

A few teeth, smaller than a grain of rice, are changing the map of your earliest primate relatives. They come from a creature called Purgatorius, a tiny tree-dwelling mammal that lived about 66 ...

A new study of ancient pottery adds to evidence that hunter-gatherers in Europe ate more than meat and developed early elements of cuisine.

A rare baby dinosaur fossil found in Canada is giving scientists a glimpse into the early life of dome-headed dinosaurs.

What did the face of our ancestors looks like 3 million years ago? Meet the reconstructed skull of “Little Foot” which ...