Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

AMD is one of the rarest documented genetic disorders. Only around 10 million people in the world carry the altered NPR2 gene, and of those, just 3,500 are estimated to display the physiological ...

Neanderthals repeatedly returned to the cave to store horned animal skulls, revealing this cultural tradition was transmitted over time.

Recent digs revealed roughly 20 feet of a long-necked dinosaur's skeleton, and paleontologists suspect even more bones are ...

Micropachycephalosaurus is often described as one of the smallest dinosaurs ever found, but the evidence behind that claim is surprisingly fragile. Much of what scientists know comes from incomplete ...

In a world obsessed with hustle culture and productivity hacks, there exists a place where the clock seems to tick at a more ...

Few know about this gigantic Arizona cave, where a hidden beach waits to surprise adventurous visitors seeking something ...

Not all fungi, plants or animals may be considered the earliest giants on earth. The tower of column of trunk-like structures ...

Most marine animals form their shells from calcium carbonate, which is a tough mineral also found in limestone. Some sponges ...

Sometimes, creatures are so strange-looking that they compel us to do a double-take. This Instagram video shows active, ...

Paleontologists spent decades trying to explain "Devil's corkscrews," the bizarre spiral-shaped fossils found in Wyoming and ...

Hominid footprints found on Crete date back 5.6 million years, making them by far the oldest ever discovered in Europe.