Fossil teeth challenge the idea that large brains drove extended childhood, suggesting cultural transmission shaped human evolution.

Until now, Antarctica was the only continent on Earth without any known amber fossils. But sediment cores taken from below the seafloor have revealed a tiny piece of fossilized resin holding fragments ...

From the moment the US election results rolled in, climate leaders knew Donald Trump would be a blow to the COP29 talks in ...

Roughly 1.77-million-year-old teeth show that slow development in hominids may have had an earlier start than previously ...

A breakthrough fossil discovery is changing what we know about some of the largest mammals to ever walk the Earth.

It has been 50 years since archaeologists discovered Lucy, perhaps the most famous ancient hominin ever found. But the ...

The discovery in the Valtellina Orobie mountain range in Lombardy dates back 280 million years to the Permian period, the age immediately prior to dinosaurs, ...