A groundbreaking study has traced the 66-million-year evolutionary history of primates and overturned conventional thought ...

An international team of researchers has published a groundbreaking study in Nature, revealing that early reptiles from the ...

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Long before humans walked the planet, a massive creature ruled the forests and open plains of ancient Eurasia. Paraceratherium, a hornless giant and a distant relative of today’s rhinoceroses, lived ...

Five tree fossils that resemble each other were found in New Brunswick, Canada, and showed certain similarities to the ...

A new analysis of an exquisitely preserved fossil that lived half a billion years ago suggests that arachnids—spiders and their close kin—evolved in the ocean, challenging the widely held belief that ...

If beaches were celebrities, El Capitán State Beach would be that critically acclaimed indie star who never quite crossed over to mainstream fame – and the locals who frequent this coastal gem ...

Modern musicians may take for granted that a wide array of musical instruments can either be easily connected to a computer or modeled entirely in one, allowing for all kinds of nuanced ways of cre… ...

Walking on two legs might have started in the trees, not on the ground. Credit: Shutterstock. New research on chimpanzees ...

Centuries after Leonardo watched a heart beat, a fresh answer is taking shape. A new wave of imaging, genetics, and ...

An Ancient Law Could Shape the Modern Future of America’s Beaches. Here’s How. The growing battle over how to manage sea level rise turns partly on a legal principle set down in Roman times.

It's hard to tell when—and why—our ancestors got down from trees and started walking on two legs. Many early hominins capable of bipedal walking were also well-adapted for climbing, and we lack fossil ...