A new genetic analysis of Neanderthal remains from Stajnia Cave offers an unusually detailed glimpse into a small group that ...

In 2000, researchers described an odd fossil found not far from Chicago. It had a round body, finlike structures on one end and a tangle of arms. The fossil was classified as an octopus and named ...

The details of how animal life began are a bit murky. Most of the groups familiar today are present in the Cambrian, a period when they rapidly diversified, with familiar features evolving alongside ...

Around 540 million years ago, the ocean erupted with complex life: Creatures rapidly transformed from simple, soft-bodied, ocean-floor-dwelling animals into bodies we might recognize today—animals ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

A 25-year-old man drowned after witnesses said he swam underneath a waterfall at the Fossil Creek Lower Waterfalls in Gila County earlier this week, officials said. Authorities responded to the ...

COCONINO NATIONAL FOREST, AZ — A 25-year-old man who jumped from the Fossil Creek Lower Waterfalls into the water below has died. Multiple search and rescue teams responded to the area just before ...

Archaeological finds off the coast of Java, Indonesia, provide insight into the world of Homo erectus, 140,000 years ago. Skull fragments and other fossil remains provide a unique picture of how and ...

When you find and break glowing blocks in Pokemon Pokopia with Rock Smash, you might find various kinds of fossils instead to use for habitats. However, actually getting Pokemon from them takes a bit ...

A 20-million-year-old whale fossil has been dug up from an Australian beach after a family stumbled across the extremely rare, “mind-blowing” relic while they were on vacation. The remnants of the ...

More than 500 million years before humans walked the Earth, a catastrophic extinction event wiped out vast numbers of early animal species. Now, fossils pulled from a single quarry in southern China ...