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 ...

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 ...

The Age of Dinosaurs is the new exhibit now open at the Virginia Museum of Natural History allowing visitors to be immersed ...

In a nutshell Scientists have discovered a remarkably complete skull of a new prehistoric carnivore species in Egypt’s Fayum ...

A nearly complete skull fossil found in Egypt has revealed a new species of Hyaenodonta, an apex carnivore that mysteriously ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

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, ...

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

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