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 ...

The previous oldest known blue-eyed individual was from around 14,000 years ago, known as the Villabruna man. The eye color ...

New research from several sites is starting to suggest that people came to the Americas earlier — perhaps far earlier — than ...

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 ...

The world's oldest rocks are spread across the globe and paint a picture of Earth's turbulent early history. Here are some of the most notable and important formations scientists have discovered.