A newly discovered collection of 400-million-year-old bony fish fossils is rewriting the history of vertebrate evolution.

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

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

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

A blade-crested Spinosaurus discovered in the Sahara is rewriting the final chapter of dinosaur evolution. A study published ...

This year, Pitt’s Frederick Honors College is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Allen L. Cook Spring Preserve Creek in ...

They open up the possibility of an evolutionary link with the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils – those from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, dated to around 315,000 years ago. These discoveries help clarify ...

Scientists at MIT have found compelling chemical evidence that Earth’s earliest animals were likely ancient sea sponges.

Researchers have uncovered 300-million-year-old reptile skin impressions in Germany, the oldest direct evidence of reptile ...