Ancient Mars is coming into sharper focus as a planet laced with rivers, deltas and vast drainage basins, and that new map of ...

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

For the first time, scientists have mapped vast, continent-scale river drainage systems on Mars — ancient networks that may ...

Newly discovered fossils prove that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belongs to a little-known, recently named ancient human relative who lived alongside the species of the famous Lucy, scientists ...

High-resolution scans of ancient Egyptian stone vases reveal levels of precision that are difficult to explain with known ...

Scientists from Arizona State University and other institutions finally assigned a species name to a fossil known as the ...

This photo provided by João Zilhão shows forearm bone fragments belonging to an ancient child that appeared to have features from both humans and Neanderthals. (João Zilhão via AP) NEW YORK (AP) — ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a colossal shark that lived off northern Australia about 115 million years ago, ...

million-year-old fossils revealed that this species began to diversify millions of years earlier than previously thought, ...

According to the team, that pine pitch is the first major new clue in over a century. When the boat was built, Denmark itself ...

An unusual new rock collection discovered by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover suggests the Red Planet's ancient past was wet ...