Two Australopithecus fossils named Lucy and Selam made a rare trip out of Ethiopia for a 60-day display at the National ...

A surprising diversity of dog shapes and sizes evolved long before the Victorians began making modern breeds Modern dog breeds come in a mind-boggling array of shapes and sizes—from Chihuahua to Great ...

Frausto explained that the colossal pile of skulls, which was unearthed at about 10.5 feet below street level, had been a ...

Scientists reveal Tongnanlong zhimingi, a giant dinosaur from the late Jurassic period in China that reached up to ...

Fossilized facial bones discovered at Sima del Elefante in northern Spain date to 1.4 million years ago, the oldest human remains ever found in Western Europe. The individual, nicknamed “Pink,” may ...

The natural world has brewed up a spooky 'skull' in a deep volcanic pit in the Sahara Desert. From space, the sight really does look like a ghostly apparition – a white face glowering from our ...

Human remains were discovered along an Indiana Riverbank earlier this year and immediately reported to the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department The local coroner’s office has since confirmed that the ...

UCL scientists found that human skulls evolved much faster than those of other apes, reflecting the powerful forces driving our brain growth and facial flattening. By comparing 3D models of ape skulls ...

In many regards, Halo: Campaign Evolved is a one-to-one remake of 2001’s Halo: Combat Evolved. But there’s one way in which this latest iteration is shaking things up: According to its developers, the ...

Indigenous Australians may have been fossil collectors, not hunters that drove megafauna to extinction, new research suggests. For more than 40 years, cuts in the lower leg bone of a now-extinct giant ...

Archaeologists say Neolithic Liangzhu residents shaped human skulls and other bones into everyday tools like bowls, cups, masks, and knives. The dig site dates back roughly 5,000 years and documents ...