So many extinction-level events happened in ancient times, it is a wonder anything survived. These the ones that killed the ...

Analysis of the fossil suggests that the only two egg-laying mammals, platypuses and land-based echidnas, both descended from ...

Chimpanzees are often cast as a mirror to our darkest tendencies, embodying violence, territoriality and power struggles. In ...

We may have gotten the evolutionary origins of the echidna backward, as new research suggests its ancestors probably lived in ...

Scientists have discovered 1.5-million-year-old standardized bone tools in Tanzania, pushing back the timeline of early ...

A controversial idea suggests the ancestors of echidnas were more like the platypus. For the first time, fossil evidence ...

The Amazing Spider-Man has entered a new era, with Spider-Man having to deal with foes new and old. Rhino on a rampage through the streets of Manhattan lead Spider-Man into a mystery involving his old ...

Researchers uncovered evidence that our ancestors survived a population crash that lasted over 100,000 years, leaving just around 1,280 individuals. This severe bottleneck occurred roughly between ...

Paleontologists recently discovered an omnivorous ancestor of the giant panda, Kretzoiarctos beatrix, at a fossil site in southern Germany. Importantly, this groundbreaking find challenges the ...

This would make them some of the earliest known structures associated with human ancestors. Clear archaeological evidence of permanent housing, however, does not appear until around 20,000 years ago, ...

If you’ve flown out of Piedmont Triad International Airport lately, you probably paid a little more for your ticket than you would have if you had flown out of Raleigh or Charlotte, but you probably ...

“Schöningen shows our Middle Paleolithic ancestors already had great knowledge of their environments, used the immediate topography to their advantage and had a sophisticated understanding of ...