Scientists at MIT have found compelling chemical evidence that Earth’s earliest animals were likely ancient sea sponges. Hidden inside rocks over 541 million years old are rare molecular “fingerprints ...

Ancient DNA shows an old Irish goat breed dates back to the Bronze Age, linking modern goats to animals raised in Ireland ...

There were schools of thought in Ancient Greece that speculated about extraterrestrial life, in trying to answer questions ...

Soil from 7,000-year-old Swedish graves reveals hidden feathers and fur, showing some Stone Age people were fully dressed at their burial.

From horseshoe crabs to crocodiles, some of these creatures have looked about the same for hundreds of millions of years.

The team calculated that the mosquitos likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some 2 ...

Learn how a combination of archaeology and anthropology helped reveal hidden insights into the diet and culture of ...

A new species of crocodylomorph dating to about 215 million years ago has been described from the U.K. It has been called Galahadosuchus jonesi in recognition of David Rhys Jones, a secondary school ...

Cassowaries Judging by its giant, claw-like feet alone, it’s easy to see why people think this giant bird is directly ...

This football-sized creature could grind its teeth like a hard-core plant-eater, back before that was really a thing — and it ...

Tyrannoroter heberti fossil shows one of the earliest land animals to eat plants, changing what we know about how ...