Our human evolution workshops were conducted with well-resourced and historically disadvantaged schools attending. The grade ...

In Greenland's icy expanse, scientists unearthed 3.7-billion-year-old stromatolite fossils, the oldest evidence of life on Earth, predating Australian finds by 220 million years. This discovery ...

The world's largest-known dinosaur mating display area may have been found hiding in plain site at Colorado's Dinosaur Ridge site. Once a tidal flat, this region would have been periodically flooded ...

The first record of termites in a polar region provides key insights into what these ancient forests were like ...

Recent studies have traced the ancestry of a nearly complete skull, discovered near Harbin, Heilongjiang province, to the Denisovan lineage. As one of the closest known relatives to modern humans ...

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They then rapidly spread to many regions around the world including what is now the UK. But despite being their closest relatives, the first known fossils of pterosaurs don’t appear until around 20 ...

The oldest fossilised termites have been found in the northern hemisphere about 150 million years ago, during the Late Jurassic Period. What is exciting is that our trace fossils show they had reached ...

The fossils are around 73 million years old, showing that birds were nesting in the Arctic at least 30 million years earlier than scientists thought. This discovery changes what we know about how ...

Learn more about receiver DK Metcalf in this edition of Five Fast Facts. 1. Metcalf was acquired by the Steelers via a trade from the Seattle Seahawks at the start of free agency and signed a new five ...

But understanding the fossils’ true place in the human story required solidly dating the site, and that was a tricky task, since precise dating requires knowing which rock layer entombed a given ...

5 fast facts about the sun Over 1 million Earths could fit inside the sun. The sun may look yellow from Earth, but it actually releases every color of light, meaning its true color is white.