That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

After decades of excavation and debate, a new analysis argues that Little Foot — one of the most complete hominin fossils ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...

Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...

Wegener at the University of Graz in Germany says that millions of years ago the two Americas, as well as Europe, Asia, ...

Giant mosasaurs, once thought to be strictly ocean-dwelling predators, may have spent their final chapter prowling freshwater ...

Amongst the most enduring mythical creatures, which were present in so many ancient cultures, are the dragons. Appearing frequently in folklore and tales from China in the east to Europe in the west, ...

Ancient mariners' tales of the terrifying Kraken, a colossal sea monster, have been scientifically linked to the elusive ...

You think you know Stonehenge. The iconic rock towers standing against a green field and a gray English sky are one of the ...

Newly surfaced photos spark renewed interest in the mystery of a giant creature encountered by U.S. soldiers in Kandahar.

Over the past several seasons, the New York Giants have been hard-pressed to find much success whenever they step onto the primetime stage. That daunting trend reached its most humiliating echelon for ...