Monument’s largest ‘bluestone’ moved more than 450 miles – a discovery researchers say rewrites relationships between Neolithic populations

Once upon a time, Earth was barren.

A 2.4-billion-year old microfossil found in the Pilbara's Hamersley Ranges could be a missing link in the evolution from simple to complex life, according to researchers.

A mysterious century-old law of genetics may explain the puzzling genetic legacy of our extinct Neanderthal cousins.

Evidence of the oldest known platypus and a new species ‘echidnapus’.

A Reddit user got the surprise of a lifetime when they noticed a human-like jawbone embedded in the new travertine flooring at their parents' house.

Most animals and plants never fossilize. For those that do, it's usually only hard parts such as bones and shells that preserve. However, in some exceptional cases, soft tissues such as muscles and gills survive the fossilization process and can present a wealth of information about the biology and ecology of ancient organisms.

In 1956, a teenage girl by the name of Tina Negus was summering in the United Kingdom's Charnwood Forest with her family, when she noticed a curious imprint on an overhanging rock face.

A team of paleontologists has found evidence of a previously unknown human lineage. In their study, reported in Journal of Human Evolution, the group analyzed the fossilized jawbone, partial skull and some leg bones of a hominin dated to 300,000 years ago.

Nature has tried some pretty wild approaches to life's problems over the eons, and that's true for vision.

The most thorough study yet of a mysterious creature that lived 300 million years ago has ruled that it had no bones after all.

The realization that people have long eaten putrid foods has archaeologists rethinking what Neandertals and other ancient hominids ate.

An ancient three-dimensional star-shaped 'thing' still baffles scientists more than a century after its discovery.

A decade on from the Chelyabinsk meteor, and our planet has come a long way in detecting the threat of interstellar objects potentially hurtling into the atmosphere. But has the risk been completely eliminated - and exactly how prepared are we for another dramatic impact?

The recent findings suggest the titanosaur — one of the largest dinosaurs in the world — may have close ties with modern-day crocodiles and birds.

Washed out to sea, a giant beast and its armored skin were left in pristine condition.

An unknown species of human apparently mastered obsidian, something it had been thought only occurred in the Stone Age.

There's mounting evidence that some dinosaurs lived among snow and ice. How did they do it?

The asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiping out three-quarters of the planet's plant and animal life (most famously the dinosaurs), also triggered a worldwide tsunami with mile-high wa