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

The year's most exciting discoveries included musket balls fired in the early days of the American Revolution, a lost ...

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 ...

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

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

Research conducted at the Department of Biology, University of Padova, has identified critical genomic milestones in the ...

Research from several sites is starting to suggest that people came to the Americas earlier than once thought.

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

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe. Like any good research, these genomes lead to more ...

BAFFLED scientists have unearthed the world's oldest human DNA in Europe - with a key ... Researchers determined that the ancestors of the early humans who lived in and around the area are likely ...