BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — The City of Cocoa Beach is celebrating a centennial birthday. One hundred years ago, the once-desolate Brevard County town was founded. Many factors have contributed to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ancient DNA evidence shows that the advent of agriculture led to more infectious disease among humans, with pathogens from ...

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