The domestic cat (Felis catus) descends from the African wildcat (Felis lybica lybica). Its global distribution alongside humans testifies to its successful...
In 2009, paleoanthropologists found eight bones from the foot of an ancient human ancestor in 3.4-million-year-old sediments at the paleontological site...
A research team led by University of Copenhagen scientists has described three new species of the tree toad genus Nectophrynoides from Tanzania’s Eastern...
Archaeologists have discovered Oldowan stone tools in three distinct archaeological horizons, spanning approximately 300,000 years (2.75 to 2.44 million...
Paleontologists have discovered two partial skulls and three partial jaws from an early-diverging dyrosaurid crocodyliform in the layers of the Quseir...
Paleoanthropologists have unearthed and examined a hominin partial skeleton that includes hand and foot bones unambiguously associated with skull elements...
In new research, paleoanthropologists from the United States and Canada analyzed the morphology of a hominin talus (large bone in the ankle that joins...
The armored ankylosaurian dinosaurs are best known from Late Cretaceous northern hemisphere ecosystems, but their early evolution in the Early-Middle Jurassic...
New hominin fossils recovered from the Ledi-Geraru Research Project area in the Afar region of Ethiopia suggest the presence of early Homo at 2.78 and...
The central Congo Basin contains the world’s most extensive tropical peatland complex, spanning 16.7 million hectares. Until now, radiocarbon dating...
The Martian meteorite Northwest Africa (NWA) 16254 is a 406-g gabbroic shergottite found two years ago in Algeria.
Image of the entire NWA 16254 sample...
Paleontologists have discovered protein sequences within dense enamel tissues of ancient rhinocerotid and proboscidean fossils collected at sites of Buluk...
An international team of scientists has sequenced the whole genome from an adult male Egyptian who lived between over 4,500 years ago — a few centuries...
These pulses are gradually tearing the African continent apart and forming a new ocean basin, according to a study led by University of Southampton researchers.
Variation...
The use of fire marks a critical milestone in human evolution, with its initial purposes debated among scholars. While cooking is often cited as the primary...
Paranthropus robustus is a well-documented hominin species with no genetic evidence reported so far. It lived between 2 million and 1.2 million years ago...
Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of small lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur from two fossilized jaws found in Morocco.
An artist’s...
Primatologists have documented and analyzed both previously reported and newly observed instances of self-directed and other-directed wound care, snare...
