A newly described Patagonian fossil reveals the evolutionary origins and global spread of the tiny alvarezsaur dinosaurs.

Our single-celled ancestor lived in a world without plants, animals or oxygen-rich oceans. Yet, this seemingly simple microorganism took the first steps toward complex life. From this ancestor emerged ...

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 ...

A new study suggests that the deadly insects evolved their taste for human blood much earlier than previously thought, around when Homo erectus migrated into Southeast Asia ...

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

There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” That observation, attributed to ...

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

An intriguing religious issue is raised by an odd space-age colloquy in mid-February between Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Out of the blue, political podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen asked Obama, “Are ...

The team calculated that the mosquitoes likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some ...

Sci-fi cinema has changed greatly throughout the decades, and one can track its evolution from classics like Metropolis to ...

From gamma ray bursts and supernova explosions to black holes and unknown alien life, we rank the scariest things in the ...

After purchasing a pair of Meta’s AI-powered smart glasses, a 50-year-old software architect says he spiraled into months of delusions that ultimately cost him his job, his savings, and much of his ...