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 world is currently experiencing its sixth mass extinction, with potentially thousands of species lost every year.

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 ...

When Did Humans First Speak? New Genetic Clues Point to 135,000 Years Ago Language is one of the biggest force multipliers in our species. It appeared earlier than expected.

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 ...

When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.