Arguably one of the most curious ancient human relatives is Homo floresiensis, a 3-foot-tall species that lived on the ...

Liang Bua cave, purported cut marks on elephant bones and charred remains from other animals led some researchers to propose ...

Analysis of Clovis stone points found among mammoth bones shows no evidence that the mammoth's were killed by hunters.

Unlike the tearing force of many animals’ claws, the terrifying power of a smasher shrimp’s club-like claws comes in lashing ...

An experiment that involved feeding a dead goat to a Komodo dragon as well as an analysis of thousands of ancient bones ...

T.rex was perhaps the deadliest dinosaur that ever lived. However, that doesn’t mean it didn’t face threats from other ...

The first four-legged vertebrates did not grow up like tadpoles after all. That idea has shaped the story of life on land for decades. Early tetrapods, the ancient animals that gave rise to mammals, ...

One place in central Montana drew Indigenous bison hunters back again and again for hundreds of years, then fell out of use. A new study says the break was not caused by a regional disappearance of ...

Plague has terrorized humans for millennia: In the 1300s the Black Death sparked the deadliest pandemic in human history, killing as many as half of all the people in Europe. Long before that, around ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A clue preserved in ancient rocks suggests that mountains rising from the ocean floor may have helped create ...

A recent study by Ruibao Li and Jennah Dharamshi published in Nature may help us understand the beginnings of animal evolution billions of years ago. These findings are the result of a collaboration ...

When most people imagine paleontologists at work, they likely envision researchers investigating giant dinosaur fossils or a long-frozen woolly mammoth. Sometimes, however, the best snapshots of ...