A Harvard physicist who once accepted evolution without question says a surprising encounter with faith forced him to rethink ...

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed ...

The Spinosaurus is a sail-backed, crocodile-snouted dinosaur that Hollywood depicted as a giant terrestrial predator capable ...

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The caution kept the mammoth extinction story intact, but it turned the bones into a new kind of mystery. A run of ...

A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal argues that “space weather” could be distorting incoming transmissions from extraterrestrials. The paper, penned by researchers at the SETI (Search ...

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, until now known only through fossils, have been rediscovered.

The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent roughly six months exploring a geological feature on Mars known as boxwork: a vast network of low rock ridges, about 3–6 feet (1–2 meters) tall, crisscrossing the ...

A rare ancient document from Sudan confirms the historical existence of King Qashqash, a Nubian ruler once known only from ...

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...