Scientists have discovered the oldest known saber-toothed predator, a 270-million-year-old gorgonopsian therapsid fossil.

A saber-toothed predator from over 270 million years ago has been unearthed on Mallorca. The fossil represents the ...

New discoveries suggest ancient people first arrived in the New World much earlier than scientists once thought.

Sloths weren’t always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge — up to 4 tons — and when ...

Final analysis of 9,000-year-old ancient DNA published June 18 shows Kennewick Man is indeed an ancestor of present day Native ... that the genome sequence of one of the oldest sets of human remains ...

By digitally modeling muscles and tendons for the skeleton of Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis), researchers determined that our hominin ancestors could run well but topped out around 11 mph.

An extinct carnivorous group known as gorgonopsians, which lived between 270 and 250 million years ago, laid eggs and had ...

A fossil site of footprints in Kenya reveal a run-in of earlier hominins more than a million years before the rise of Homo ...

Roughly 7,000-year-old cords found in a stunning Spanish cave are Europe's oldest bowstrings made of ... miners in the cave discovered artifacts and human remains within the cave.