New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills with its own style of bipedal walking. The evidence shows that multiple early ...

A team of researchers has discovered 16,600 footprints belonging to theropods — the dinosaur group that includes the ...

A ferocious relative of the crocodile that hunted dinosaurs has been discovered, a forgotten superpredator from the ...

In 2004, archaeologists discovered a new species of ancient human, Homo floresiensis, on the Indonesian island of Flores. Nicknamed “the hobbit,” this three-foot-tall hominin lived between about ...

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

These findings line up with the fossil record. More than 90 percent of pygmy elephant remains are found within a narrow ...

International research and highly-specialized divers are bringing an underground, underwater world to the surface ...

When and how ancient humans reached what is now Australia and New Guinea has been a long – and hotly contested – discussion. Now, the results of a genetic study suggests it occurred at least 60,000 ...

Mythology, folklore and even the Bible tell us that giants once roamed the Earth. And, it turns out, there’s evidence to back this claim. Extraordinary human remains have been found in the US state of ...

Berlin’s Museum of Natural History is one of the world's most important research institutions. Home to an incredible ...

Analyses of fossils and ancient genomics reveal how early human populations bred less wolf-like companions, and how they might have traded them around the world. From Pomeranians to poodles, Saint ...