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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...