Newly recognized patches of undeveloped grassland are accidental time travelers from a distant past, and they offer answers ...

They built four models through which it could distinguish things with biological antecedents from things which lacked them.

A team of international scientists has discovered new fossils at a field site in Africa that indicate Australopithecus, and the oldest specimens of Homo, coexisted at the same place in Africa at the ...

A quest to discover new antibiotics is taking a Cal Poly biochemistry research team back in time millions of years as they ...

Scientists have recovered ancient proteins from a fossilized rhinoceros tooth, breaking new ground in the study of ancient life on Earth. The 24 million-year-old tooth, which was unearthed in the ...

Long before whales were majestic, gentle giants, some of their prehistoric ancestors were tiny, weird and feral. A chance discovery of a 25-million-year-old fossil on an Australian beach has allowed ...

Ancient civilizations demonstrated remarkable ingenuity in solving complex engineering, architectural, and technological challenges using tools and methods that often seem impossibly sophisticated for ...

Ancient “technologies” that still have scientists baffled Ancient civilizations demonstrated remarkable ingenuity in solving complex engineering, architectural, and technological challenges using ...