Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong anatomical evidence that Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, including a ...

In the deserts of Ethiopia, scientists uncovered fossils showing that early members of our genus Homo lived side by side with a newly identified species of Australopithecus nearly three million years ...

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A Kansas boy searching for fossils during a geology club field trip stumbled onto something far bigger than expected: the remains of a 15-foot-long marine reptile that swam an ancient sea 85 million ...

One fossil can shake up a scientist's entire theory, making them re-arrange the timeline they had for the origin of species. Then, there are the fossils that just don't make sense. They're undeniably ...

The world's largest whale graveyard has been discovered at the bottom of the Indian Ocean by Chinese scientists, who found that the vast expanse of both new and ancient carcasses supports huge ...

Stephen Gilmore’s 40-year tour of global finance has given him a front-row seat to the Russian debt crisis, the bailout of a financial giant and the rise of sovereign wealth funds. It’s also taken him ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Just in time for summer, the Fossils Frontier exhibit is complete at the Adventure Science Center in Nashville. On Wednesday morning the Adventure Science Center unveiled the ...

The first measurements from the JUNO experiment demonstrate unprecedented precision and promise exciting results. Measurement of reactor neutrino oscillation with the first JUNO data Neutrinos have ...