Our earliest mammalian ancestors avoided the dominant dinosaurs by only coming out at night and having uniformly dark, ...

A new book offers a fascinating journey from insects to apes and a forceful rebuttal to bigotry showing what the incredible ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

New evidence uncovered in east Africa indicates ancient hominins began crafting tools from animal bones far earlier than ...

"These extinct early mammals had distinct lifestyles, ranging from ground-dwelling and burrowing to gliding through the ...

Researchers in Spain have discovered pieces of a fossilized face belonging to an ancient human ancestor. The fragments cannot ...

A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they were all greyish-brown ...

The Triassic is one of the most important periods in the evolution of life on Earth. After one of the greatest mass ...

Archaeologists have discovered a collection of prehistoric animal bones in Tanzania that suggests early humans figured out ...

What if life didn’t require oxygen? For centuries, we've operated under the assumption that oxygen is an essential part of ...