In the caves of Cantabria, a new species of wasp has been found preserved in amber resin that dates back 100 million years and has given new insights.

Pannotia holds an odd place in Earth science. It is mentioned in textbooks and review papers, but its outline is unclear. The ...

Sensitive hearing may have evolved in mammal ancestors far earlier than scientists once believed. By modeling how sound moved ...

The return of humans to the British Isles after the end of the last ice sheet, which covered much of the northern hemisphere, ...

Little is known about why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct around 14,000 years ago. Scientists have found clues in the ...

In late 2025, researchers at the University of Alaska Museum of the North uncovered a startling revelation: two fossilized ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

A new study in Nature led by scientists at New York University reports that fossil bones as old as 3 million years still ...

Scientists working in Ethiopia's Afar Region have made discoveries that rewrite our understanding of early human history. For ...

For decades, two small bone pieces sat quietly in a museum drawer in Alaska, labelled as mammoth remains and largely ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

Morocco provide new evidence on human evolution, revealing an African lineage near the origin of Homo sapiens.