Ancient proteins link two Xujiayao fossil fragments to Denisovans, revealing more about their skull anatomy and supporting a ...

The Denisovan story began in 2010, when genetic material from a finger bone found in Siberia’s Denisova Cave revealed an ...

Get an exclusive look inside Paxton Gate, a San Francisco oddities shop filled with two-headed animals, unusual skulls, ...

The Sphinx is one of ancient Egypt's most enigmatic monuments, and now scientists have found that it could be hiding a very unusual secret.

A team of paleontologists from China University of Geosciences (Beijing) studying penguin fossils from Seymour Island off the Antarctic Peninsula have demonstrated how ancient bird bones can act as ...

Learn how scientists are using ancient fossils and machine learning to reconstruct ancient soundscapes. The Jurassic Era ended 145 million years ago. Everything we know about this period has been ...

A 50-million-year-old slab preserves hundreds of freshwater herring—and a window into an ancient landscape unrecognizable ...

A first integrated reconstruction of the Vaca Muerta Formation's marine life shows a stable pelagic ecosystem persisting for ...

Scientists have identified a new species of ancient, squid-like belemnite from Wyoming after discovering the thickest ...

Around 250 million years ago, what is today scorching desert in remote northwestern Australia was the shore of a shallow bay bordering a vast prehistoric ocean. Fossils recovered from this region over ...

Learn about a 480-million-year-old leech fossil that revealed that ancient leeches didn’t have the biological components necessary to suck blood. It’s the beginning of the spooky season, which means ...