A boy's 2008 find in South Africa led to Australopithecus sediba, an ancient human relative about 2 million years old.

It has now been identified as the oldest adult Homo erectus specimen found in Africa. Catalogued as DNH 127, the fragment ...

Archaeologists identified hominin fossils in South Africa, including a 2-million-year-old adult Homo erectus fossil.

The first major evolutionary change in the human diet was the incorporation of meat and marrow from large animals, which ...

The Greatest Geological Goldmines This North American giant boasts one of the richest and most complete Mesozoic fossil records on the planet. Legendary sites like the Hell Creek Formation—extending ...

Digital reconstruction suggests an early human from Morocco may have looked remarkably similar to people today.

After spending more than 300,000 years hidden in the ground beneath Morocco, an ancient ancestor has been brought back to ...

The 22-inch dinosaur lived more than 100 million years ago, and its complete skeleton and preserved feathers are offering new ...

Tiny relatives of our cellular ancestors reshape long protrusions within minutes and pull themselves across surfaces using ancient actin machinery.

Historical “discoveries” that turned out to be elaborate hoaxes The allure of groundbreaking discoveries stems from ...

Scientists used machine learning and super-resolution microscopy to overcome a challenge that has stymied research into the ...

The estimated lifespan of the outer solar system has been downgraded from 100 billion years to just a few billion years, ...