Scientists from Arizona State University and other institutions finally assigned a species name to a fossil known as the ...

Climate data offers clues to what might have happened to people of the Indus River Valley and how that might relate to our own warming world.

Newly discovered fossils prove that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belongs to a little-known, recently named ancient ...

Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...

As such, researchers at Cambridge University and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have been studying tiny ancient fossils ...

Now, in a study published Tuesday called "Mystery owner of African hominin foot identified," the scientists announced that ...

Centuries-old genetic material can solve historical mysteries, from lost species to what killed Napoleon’s army.

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a colossal shark that lived off northern Australia about 115 million years ago, ...

The team analyzed DNA from 225 ancient cat specimens collected across Europe, North Africa, and Anatolia. These were were bones and teeth spanning more than 10,000 years of human history. From these ...

Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a woolly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in the extinct mammal's body just before it died.

Olive oil is the Swiss army knife of foodstuffs. It can dress salads, sauté vegetables, even grease squeaky hinges. And for ...