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

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a massive, ancient shark that lived 115 million years ago.

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

WASHINGTON — Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal, dated to around 350 million years ago. The discovery suggests that after the first ...

Scientists have discovered a 151-million-year-old fossil fly in Australia that challenges ideas about insect evolution. Named ...

Ancient DNA from Denisovans left humans a powerful genetic advantage — a gene that helped early Americans survive new ...

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 ...

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

While many modern plants use colorful flowers to attract pollinators, ancient palm-like plants called cycads lure them by ...

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

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

The discovery site at East Farm, Barnham, England lies hidden within a disused clay pit tucked away in the wooded landscape between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Professor Nick Ashton from the British ...