Exposed in 1953, the Piltdown Man forgery misled scientists for four decades. Charles Dawson’s fake fossils combined a medieval human skull, an orangutan jaw, and chimpanzee teeth stained to look ...

Researchers have digitally reconstructed the faces of two men who lived approximately 2,500 years ago in Tamil Nadu, using ...

Scientists unearthed a 242-million-year-old fossil, Agriodontosaurus helsbypetrae, in Devon, pushing back the origins of ...

Fragments of fossils unearthed from the Hualongdong ruin, a key site to showcase East Asia's human evolution in China's Anhui ...

Human is a five-part Nova series, produced by the BBC, that takes a look at the origins and survival of the human race. The host is paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi, and she travels to various ...

Pachycephalosaurs, two-legged plant eaters known for their bony dome-shaped skulls, are among the quirkiest dinosaurs known, ...

It can seem of late that the experiment in evolution we call Homo sapiens has gone horribly wrong, notwithstanding my ability ...

This skull was an enigma. An anomaly that didn't fit neatly ... This is a museum that houses some of the most important fossils in the human story. And one of those fossils is Herto1. Easily, one of ...

Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...

A protein historian and evolutionary biochemist found that a protein sequence present across all known life didn’t form as ...

Volcanic eruptions are excellent timekeepers because they happen very quickly, geologically speaking. As hot magma erupts, it ...

Scientists announced Wednesday they have discovered the oldest-known member of the lizard family in southwest England, a tiny ...