Tightening the dragnet on Denisovans
AI tech tries to sniff out hidden signatures of ancient humans in modern DNA.
Researchers have identified some prime suspects in the biggest ‘who done it’ mystery in human evolution: who were the...
Researchers have identified some prime suspects in the biggest ‘who done it’ mystery in human evolution: who were the...
Life on earth has been assaulted multiple times over its long history, by vicious mass extinctions and crashes in bio...
Finite element analysis results for an adult Tyrannosaurus rex (FMNH PR 2081) jaw demonstrating a range of biting str...
Nearly 300 million years ago, a volcanic eruption in northern China smothered a nearby swamp under half a metre of as...
Please wear a mask when taking selfies with gorillas Gorillas can catch SARS-CoV-2 from humans: in January, it spr...
Ancient DNA is famously tough to extract and identify. Until today, the oldest sequenced DNA came from a horse that h...
A new paper pinpoints the date that a large group of dinosaurs made it to Greenland, suggesting that climatic changes...
Dexterous thumbs – considered a hallmark of being human – were present two million years ago, according to a study pu...
A terrifying tyrannosaur – a cousin of T. rex – may have started its life about the size of a border collie. Artis...
By Russell Dean Christopher Bicknell, James D. Holmes and John Paterson from the University of New England Shell-c...
In the arid badlands of New Mexico, paleontologists have uncovered the first new skull of the rare dinosaur Parasauro...
Gravitational waves, marine fossils and climate change don’t usually appear in the same sentence, but a unique intern...