Ancient fossils from Moroccan caves, dated with rare precision, offer rare insight into early human evolution.

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

Johns Hopkins University geneticists and a small army of researchers across the country, including students, are working to catalog the vast and largely unknown soil microbiome of the United States.

Scientists have identified a marine fungus that was previously unknown and is capable of killing toxic algae known to ...

In 1998, paleoanthropologist Ronald Clarke and his research team discovered the skull of a previously unknown human ancestor ...

The analysis of dental remains from Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia has important implications regarding the balance and ...

A transparent goby fish drifted through the darkness, its skeleton visible through paper-thin skin. Nearby, a sea slug wore ...

New species are being discovered faster than ever before - at a rate of more than 16,000 every year, suggests a new study.

Understanding this crucial point in human history has focused on the Dmanisi Hominid Archaeological Site in Georgia where scientists now believe two human species coexisted at the site.

The world still holds its secrets. Hidden under wet rocks, in the ocean’s twilight crevices, and in the minutiae of the ...

(CNN) — Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil ...