80-million-year-old fossils revealed that this dyrosaurid species began to diversify millions of years earlier than ...

This 375-million-year-old fish, the closest known relative of the ancestors of limbed animals such as humans, likely evolved ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

A new study shows that Etruscan cities grew through shifting land use, farming, and settlement patterns in ancient Italy.

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the \"vampire squid from hell,\" revealing it bridges the evolutionary gap between ...

Blazing colors and enticing scents may be showy, but they're just one part of the toolkit plants use to lure in pollinators.

Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering ...

Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive ...

Ancient pterosaurs may have taken to the skies far earlier and more explosively than birds, evolving flight at their very ...

Cycads use infrared heat to guide beetle pollinators, revealing an ancient plant communication system that predates flowers.

Archaeologists working in the Southern Ural Mountains have uncovered an unexpected clue about how an ancient plague once moved across Eurasia. A tiny sheep tooth found at the Bronze Age site of Arkaim ...

New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity in Barnham, ...