Archaeologists have unearthed the world’s earliest intentional cremation of an adult human known till date in Malawi, a ...

Argentavis magnificens was so massive it should’ve stayed grounded. Yet, this giant prehistoric bird still ruled the skies of ...

New fossil discoveries are forcing scientists to redraw the boundaries of ancient oceans, suggesting that some of the most ...

While Ohio might be famous for its buckeyes, corn fields, and rock and roll, this 309-acre slice of paradise proves the ...

Nestled along the mighty Mississippi River in northwestern Illinois lies a natural wonderland so spectacular yet so overlooked that even many Prairie State natives have never set foot on its ancient ...

A long-running and bitterly fought dispute over whether the earliest known hominin had a knuckle-walking gait, like ...

The Murcia tracksites confirm that straight-tusked elephants, Palaeoloxodon antiquus, crossed Spain’s southeastern coastal ...

Museum fossils in England reveal 200-million-year-old coelacanths, fish that swam alongside the first dinosaurs ...

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...

In the age of dinosaurs—before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon—a monstrous shark prowled the waters off ...