Scientists Discover New Species of Early Human in the Philippines
An international team of researchers has uncovered the remains of a new species of human in the Philippines, proving the region played a key role…
An international team of researchers has uncovered the remains of a new species of human in the Philippines, proving the region played a key role…
A new oviraptorosaur species from the Late Cretaceous was discovered in Mongolia, according to a study published on February 6, 2019 in the open-access journal…
A new animal species related to crabs and shrimp, preserved in 430-million-year-old rocks in Herefordshire, England, presents a rare look at the respiratory organs of…
A radical new approach combining archaeology, genetics, and microscopy can reveal long-forgotten secrets of human diet, sanitation, and movement from studying parasites in ancient poo,…
Insect pollination played an important role in the evolution of angiosperms. Little is known, however, about ancient pollination insects and their niche diversity during the…
Digit reduction occurs many times in tetrapod evolution, and the most famous example is the ‘horse series’ of North America. An international research team announced…
You probably know Easter Island as “the place with the giant stone heads.” This remote island 2,300 miles (3,700 kilometers) off the coast of Chile…
New archaeological research from The Australian National University (ANU) has found that Homo erectus, an extinct species of primitive humans, went extinct in part because…
Despite over a century of intense study, we still know very little about the people buried at Stonehenge or how they came to be there….
Ancient tools and bones discovered in China by archaeologists suggest early humans left Africa and arrived in Asia earlier than previously thought. The artifacts show…
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University and two other universities have discovered the 13-million-year-old fossils of a pair of new species of extinct hoofed mammals…
Archaeologists at Lund University in Sweden have found carbonized germinated grains showing that malt was produced for beer brewing as early as the Iron Age…
Scientists have shown that at the Anzick site in Montana – the only known Clovis burial site – the skeletal remains of a young child…
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong put the first footprint on the moon. But when did animals leave the first footprint on Earth? Recently, an…
Models of wetter conditions than contemporary climate suggest human ancestors lived in environments other than open, arid grasslands New research out of South Africa’s Wonderwerk…
An ANU archaeologist has hailed her excavation of a Bronze Age burial mound in southwest England a huge success with the discovery of an intact…
Researchers have uncovered important genomic data from the remains of an ancient giant ground sloth, or Mylodon darwinii, the emblematic creature named after Charles Darwin,…
A 180 million-year-old fossil has shed light on how some ancient crocodiles evolved into dolphin-like animals. The specimen – featuring a large portion of backbone…