A new study links a particular gene to the ancient origins of spoken language in humans. When put in mice, it changed the way ...

Casts of skulls are seen July 20, 2023, inside an exhibit of early human species inside the Smithsonian Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in ...

About 30 million years ago, parts of Egypt were covered in lush forests. Within those trees, lurked an order of fearsome big ...

A nearly complete skull fossil found in Egypt has revealed a new species of Hyaenodonta, an apex carnivore that mysteriously went extinct about 25 million years ago.

A rare discovery of a nearly complete skull in the Egyptian desert has led scientists to the "dream" revelation of a new ...

The Virginia Museum of Natural History (VMNH) is inviting you on a prehistoric adventure to a land before the age of man. The ...

A rare discovery of a nearly complete skull in the Egyptian desert has led scientists to the “dream” revelation of a new ...

Divers in Florida’s Steinhatchee River stumbled upon hundreds of pristine fossils from an obscure Ice Age period, including ...

Casts of skulls are exhibited in the Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, in Washington. Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP Scientists have found genetics played a big ...

Hidden beneath Egypt’s desert sands, scientists uncovered a nearly complete skull of Bastetodon, a 30-million-year-old ...

Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...