View Full Image An ancient Yamnaya skull painted with red ocher. Photo: Simon Rasmussen/Cell 2015 Associated Press “It was a ...

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

For about half the people alive today, the story of where they came from just became clearer. For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ...

The skull dates back to the Paleogene Period, a time that followed the extinction of the dinosaurs and saw the rapid diversification of many life forms, including mammals. Hyaenodonts were the ...

Now, an international team of paleontologists has found a new piece of the puzzle — a nearly complete skull of a previously unidentified species of hyaenodonta. The discovery could bring ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A nearly complete skull found in Egypt reveals a new 30-million-year-old species, Bastetodon, a leopard-sized apex predator from the extinct group Hyaenodonta ...

A newly-described fossil skull has given paleontologists their best look yet at a hyaenodont with a meat-cleaving bite. Found in the 30 million-year-old rock of Egypt’s Fayum Basin, the ...