A Cambrian fossil once thought to be a mollusk ancestor is now identified as a chancelloriid relative, reshaping ideas about ...

Bronze Age life changed radically around 1500 BC in Central Europe. New research reveals diets narrowed, millet was ...

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New research shows 8,000-pound sloths once dug caves, adapted to oceans, and roamed widely—until climate and humans brought their downfall.

Scientists used enamel proteins from 2-million-year-old teeth to find unexpected variation in Paranthropus robustus.

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

They are used to steer a horse, but some think placing a hunk of metal in their mouths and tugging on it is cruel. A few ...

In western Wyoming, the remarkable discovery of four nearly complete snake fossils, named Hibernophis Breithaupti, dating back 34 to 38 million years, provides unprecedented insights into snake ...

Field crews in Wyoming uncovered not one but four snake fossils so intact that their skulls, ribs, and tails lay in ...

What happened to all the megafauna? From moas to mammoths, many large animals went extinct between 50 and 10,000 years ago.

Before the Spanish introduced modern horses to the New World, horses roamed wild in North America, then they disappeared, but ...

For more than a decade, paleontologists have speculated about a single fossil that preserves skeletons of two of the world’s most famous dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops. Not only ...