New fossil discoveries in the Balkans suggest that the first human ancestors may have originated in Europe rather than Africa ...

While there is a common belief that the evolution of humans can be traced back to fishlike vertebrate ancestors, pinpointing the origins of bony fish — a key group in this evolution — remains ...

Courtesy of Zhu Youan. Chinese scientists have discovered fossils of bony fish dating back about 436 million years, providing key evidence that hel ...

A newly discovered collection of 400-million-year-old bony fish fossils is rewriting the history of vertebrate evolution.

In a paper in Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, researchers argue that a 7.2-million-year-old femur from the Azmaka site preserves a blend of traits consistent with an early, transitional ...

The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like?

Scientists analyze fossils and vocal tract models to reconstruct what prehistoric humans may have sounded like millions of years ago.

A team of scientists have found a set of ancient symbols and writing in a cave that has forever altered our understanding of when we first began to write.

A few teeth, smaller than a grain of rice, are changing the map of your earliest primate relatives. They come from a creature called Purgatorius, a tiny tree-dwelling mammal that lived about 66 ...

Homo erectus skulls from China’s Yunxian archaeological site revealed ages close to two million years—a million years older ...

These last few months have given us vivid demonstrations of the power of the Rule of Law. A brother of the reigning monarch in Great Britain has been arrested by the local police and questioned. This ...

A resurrected ancient enzyme is helping scientists test how reliably Earth’s oldest rocks record signs of life.