An 11-year-old’s beachside discovery has stunned scientists and triggered a major rewrite of prehistoric history. Buried ...
In 1989, paleontologist Darren Tanke suggested that similar breaks were the result of mating as one dinosaur mounted the ...
More than 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus began an ambitious effort to identify and name every living ...
Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful of teeth found at the Ledi-Geraru site in Ethiopia suggest that diverse ...
Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...
A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.
Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But the face staring back is complicating scientists' understanding of early ...
From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.
Dinosaurs may be long extinct, but 2025 made it abundantly clear that they’re anything but settled science. Over the past year, new fossils, reanalyses of famous specimens and the use of increasingly ...
The Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest has released a statement that the public should be aware that winter timber hauling activity is occurring in the eastern Snowy Range, near Centennial.