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Discoveries of new fossils and changes in our understanding of existing fossils can lead to revisions of scientific knowledge, including historical timelines and reconstructions of…

Marriage practices in Minoan Crete (a Bronze Age civilization that existed on the island of Crete from approximately 2600 to 1100 BC) are not well-documented…

Evolution is the process by which populations of organisms change over generations through mechanisms such as natural selection and genetic drift. In natural selection, organisms…

A new study in the field of geosciences has uncovered Triassic fossils that provide insight into the origins of living amphibians. The discovery sheds light…

The inside of the head of one of Australia’s smallest fossil crocs would have contained its brain, sense organs, and other structures necessary for its…

Mammoths went extinct around 4,000 years ago. The exact timeline and causes of their extinction are still being debated by scientists, but it is believed…

The discovery of extinct prehistoric reptiles that lived among dinosaurs is a field of study known as paleontology. Paleontologists study fossils of extinct animals, including…

The most widely accepted theory for the mass extinction of dinosaurs and other life on Earth is that a large asteroid or comet struck the…

Paleontologists have long been fascinated by the dinosaurs’ demise. Their extinction was a tumultuous end to the reign of these once-dominant beasts after a fiery…

According to a new study, humans walking on two legs use only a quarter of the energy that chimps use while “knuckle-walking” on all fours.…