The "very rare" find provides an extraordinary glimpse into the ingenuity of early human relatives who lived around half a ...

When Charleston resident Grant Martin found his first shark tooth on a Hilton Head Island beach when he was a kid, he thought ...

At a shocking 20 centimeters (8 inches) long and 5 centimeters (2 inches) wide, this coprolite is the largest intact piece of ...

Greenland sharks are spilling new secrets about antiaging.

Earth's first large land organisms—tree trunk-like beings that stood up to 26 feet tall—weren't early fungi but, rather, ...

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

That makes Liang Metanduno the home of the oldest known artwork in the world, beating the previous contender (a Neanderthal ...

A rare fossil discovery in Ethiopia has pushed the known range of Paranthropus hundreds of miles farther north than ever before. The 2.6-million-year-old jaw suggests this ancient relative of humans ...

A partial skeleton dating back more than two million years is the most complete yet of Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

Tucked along the banks of the Snake River in southern Idaho, Hagerman is the kind of place that makes you wonder why you’ve been rushing through life when this serene alternative exists just a short ...

A group of German scientists tested the effects of a more acidic ocean on sharks' teeth and found that future generations of ...

An 11-year-old in Wyoming discovered a 48-million-year-old fossilized turtle, exposed by erosion in the once-warm, ...