Archaeologists in China have uncovered a human skull that is almost unimaginably old. While performing excavations in the central province of Hubei, a…
Hundreds of perfectly preserved human footprints, dated between 9,000 and 1,000 years old, have been exposed on Merseyside’s Formby Beach on the Irish…
When Homo sapiens first arrived on the European continent about 42,500 years ago, the Neanderthals were still living there, and would remain there…
Cutting edge As the theater of military aviation constantly reshapes itself in response to emerging threats and technological advancements, a few awe-inspiring creations…
A team of scientists from the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), in collaboration with colleagues from several scientific institutions in Germany,…
We may have a lot more to thank (or curse) our ancestors for than we realize. When the Black Death or the bubonic…
A “breakthrough” has been made in understanding the history of our planet. Studying ancient environmental DNA a team of researchers has now tracked…
Paleontologists affiliated with the Queensland Museum Network in Australia have unearthed both the head and body of a 100-million-year-old marine reptile known as…
A new discovery shows that these enormous megafauna went extinct far later than researchers had thought. Jane McDonaldA model of Zygomaturus trilobus at…
Dakotaraptor, a new dinosaur species discovered in South Dakota, is a far larger relative of the Velociraptor. A new species of raptor was…
The ancient flying reptile dubbed Thanatosdrakon amaru lived on Earth between 146 million and 66 million years. Leonardo D. Ortiz DavidThis ancient flying…
From museum halls to movie screens, we love to see dinosaurs at their fiercest. All those teeth, claws, spikes, horns, and other weird…