Sep 2019
The fossilized hominid skull illuminates the earliest-known Australopithecus species
A 3.8 million-year-old skull reveals the face of Lucy’s possible ancestors
Aug 2022
Misconduct allegations over an earlier report on one of the bones hang over the findings.
7-million-year-old limb fossils may be from the earliest known hominid
Dec 2021
Fossils and DNA point to mixing and mingling among Homo groups across vast areas
2021 research reinforced that mating across groups drove human evolution
Mar 2021
A roughly 10,000-year-old bone found in southern Alaska is among the Americas’ oldest dog fossils
An ancient dog fossil helps trace humans’ path into the Americas
Jun 2022
Thwaites Glacier is losing ice more quickly than at any other time in the last 5,500 years
Ancient penguin bones reveal unprecedented shrinkage in key Antarctic glaciers
Jan 2024
Just 21 of more than 400 teeth had fractures, suggesting early primates had soft-food diets
Ancient primates' unchipped teeth hint that they ate mostly fruit
Jul 2020
Features of a fossil from what’s now Libya tie the animal closely to its extant American kin
An ancient skull hints crocodiles swam from Africa to the Americas
Feb 2024
Bits of rock may point to the oldest known midair asteroid disintegration
An asteroid may have exploded over Antarctica about 2.5 million years ago
Oct 2019
The giant animals evolved different strategies for cooling their blood and avoiding heatstroke
Big dinosaurs kept cool thanks to blood vessel clusters in their heads
Jul 2023
The proposed geologic epoch denotes when humans began profoundly changing the planet
Canada's Crawford Lake could mark the beginning of the Anthropocene