A 259-million-year-old fossil skull of Yinshanosaurus angustus has been found, filling a key evolutionary gap in ...

By analyzing ancient DNA, scientists determined when, where and how our ancestors got sick from infectious diseases.

The gull-sized pterosaur was found at the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona along with hundreds of other fossils ...

The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first ...

Molecules from the 20-million-year-old teeth of a rhino relative are among the oldest ever sequenced, opening tantalizing ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants managed to people the rest of the world ...

Researchers have described proteins that they say are among the most ancient ever sequenced. Two teams, which analysed ...

Vitamins got their name in the early 1900s when London-based Polish biochemist Casimir Funk—one of many scientists seeking ...

Philippine islands had technologically advanced maritime culture 35,000 years ago, archaeologists discover by Timothy James M. Dimacali, Ateneo de Manila University ...

Scientists have found evidence of the most powerful storm in history, which hit Earth in 14,300 years ago. It would cause mayhem in today's technology-dependent world.

Imagine the prehistoric world and the challenges of survival during the age of dinosaurs 200 million years ago.