This week, solve the mystery of an ancient human ancestor’s fossil, meet a new generation of dire wolves, spy April’s full moon, and more.

A new database compiling over 400 sightings of a mysterious ocean phenomenon known as ‘milky seas’ could help scientists soon ...

If daily life simply isn't spooky enough for you, check out the strange nature reserve in Central Asia that has legends ...

The fossil expands the Denisovan's known range by thousands of kilometres and provides new insights into how this species ...

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, ...

CHENNAI, India (AP) — For nearly four decades, residents in southern India's coastal city of Chennai have patrolled moonlit ...

Ishiro Honda's «Godzilla», about an ancient sea kaiju awakened by the atomic bombings of World War II, changed the history of ...

"Twins! She has another baby," Judith Pardo-Pérez, a paleontologist at the University of Magallanes in Chile who first ...

One of the first cetaceans, Pakicetus, was a goat-sized creature that lived along the banks of lakes and rivers in ...

Also known as the cow shark, the sixgill is considered rare amongst oceanologists. Which meant that when deep sea scientists ...