Earth's first large land organisms—tree trunk-like beings that stood up to 26 feet tall—weren't early fungi but, rather, ...

An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...

For much of the twentieth century, a prevailing view in marine biology held that most major marine groups originated in ...

Deep in Earth's ancient oceans, scientists have unearthed 97-million-year-old giant magnetofossils harboring an internal ...

In a paper published in Nature, a team led by University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Professor Zeresenay Alemseged reports ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

Scientists discovered exceptionally preserved Ediacaran fossils in sandstone, revealing how soft-bodied organisms survived ...

Sensitive hearing may have evolved in mammal ancestors far earlier than scientists once believed. By modeling how sound moved ...

“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...

But this latest discovery seems to challenge that. It appears that Paranthropus had greater dietary flexibility than first interpreted, could adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions and was ...

Learn about the most complete Homo habilis fossil ever found, and how this fossil is changing what we know about human ...

For those who love nature, a trip to one of our 63 national parks often makes it to the top of their travel list, and with ...