Pangaea looked nothing like you remember from school - this attempt to rebuild it might change how you see the world ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

A 259-million-year-old fossil skull of Yinshanosaurus angustus has been found, filling a key evolutionary gap in ...

New species of flying reptile that lived among dinosaurs 200 million years ago discovered - Scientists uncovered the the ...

Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use ...

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants managed to people the rest of the world ...

Research data suggests humans may have nearly gone extinct almost 1 million years ago, but scientists aren't sure why.

Scientists in Antarctica have dug out ice that can be from as far back as 1.2 million years. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to researcher Carlo Barbante, about what he hopes to learn from the ice.

The Mosura fentoni, or "sea moth," is a newly discovered type of arthropod that would have lived in the deep sea more than 500 million years ago.

The pair belonged to the species Homo habilis, an extinct hominin that’s one of the earliest representatives of the same genus as our species, Homo. They first appeared in East Africa around 2.4 ...

A 47-million-year-old cicada fossil from Germany’s Messel Pit could teach us about the evolution of insect communication.

Canadian paleontologists recently discovered Mosura fentoni, a 506-million-year-old predator resembling a moth. The discovery offers insights into extinct radiodonts' anatomy.