The prehistoric human skull found in the Petralona Cave in Northern Greece challenges the Out of Africa theory of the origin of Homo sapiens ...

A fossil discovery near Pampore, Kashmir, sheds light on the interaction between ancient humans and the environment of the ...

A new study challenges long-standing beliefs by suggesting that dog skull shape does not determine task performance.

Scientists have been studying the 'alien mummies' for about six years, finding new details that prove 'they are 100 percent ...

Science dioramas of yesteryear can highlight the biases of the time. Exhibit experts are reimagining, annotating — and sometimes mothballing — the scenes.

Evolution has largely deprived us of our ability to swivel our ears, but those vestigial muscles still activate when we ...

“The exact reason these became vestigial is difficult to tell, as our ancestors lost this ability about 25 million years ago, ...

For more than a decade many researchers have compared the DNA of giraffes from all parts of Africa. These studies have ...

In honor of the Year of the Snake, let’s appreciate the strange anatomy and evolution of these slithery reptiles ...

A groundbreaking discovery in China has uncovered ancient human fossils that could reshape our understanding of human ...

A misidentified Diatryma skull from Germany's Geiseltal region was rediscovered, confirming the rare bird's herbivorous ...

A forgotten fossil in a German museum turned out to be a rare Diatryma skull. Scientists corrected a decades-old ...