Over 500 million years ago, the Cambrian Period sparked an explosion of skeletal creativity. Salterella, a peculiar fossil, ...
The brain does not need its sophisticated cortex to interpret the visual world. A new study published in PLOS Biology ...
A fossil once believed to belong to the ancient creature Dickinsonia has been debunked. Initially thought to date back around ...
We may be witnessing the moment when our ancestors first defied a hostile world, using the same tools in the same place for ...
When an asteroid slammed into what is now Lake Lappajärvi in Finland some 78 million years ago, it unleashed unimaginable ...
However, because infant specimens are extremely rare in the fossil record, scientists were until now unsure if these species-specific traits were present from birth. To find out, the study authors ...
Professor Amelia Villaseñor and her team uncovered 2.75 million-year-old stone tools in Kenya, showcasing long-term cultural ...
Namorotukunan reveals an enduring tradition, not a moment: human ancestors made the same types of tools for hundreds of ...
Researchers uncovered a 2.75–2.44 million-year-old site in Kenya showing that early humans maintained stone tool traditions ...