Readers express concerns over local issues like beach parking fees and landscaping practices. Several letters critique former ...

Did you know that homo sapiens were not the only type of ancient "human" to exist? During most of the past 2 million years or ...

An international team of scientists has found out that two types of ancient people originated in Africa, and not one, as previously thought. To clarify this issue, they analyzed the area of dental ...

When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyze the morphology of bones—which is crucial for ...

The oldest hominin fossils outside of Africa hail from Dmanisi in Georgia, yet the debate over which human species these ...

When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyse the morphology of bones - which is crucial for ...

When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyse the morphology of bones — which is crucial for ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

A new pterosaur species was recently discovered in the vomit of a dino. But that's just the start of revelations from prehistoric excretions. Millions of years ago, a predator like spinosaurus (shown ...

From sloths that towered over people like living bulldozers and penguins heavier than an ostrich, to snakes longer than a bus, prehistoric landscapes were shaped by creatures so massive they almost ...