The fossilized remains of the Miocene-period ape species Anadoluvius turkae have been unearthed at the paleotological site of Çorakyerler in central Anatolia, Türkiye. The origin of the hominines ...

Paleontologists working in southern Wyoming have identified a previously unknown species of omomyid primate, adding a new chapter to the story of one of the best-studied fossil lineages in North ...

“Recent discoveries are eroding the usefulness and accuracy of current classification, including the current species in our own genus Homo, but also in Australopithecus and Paranthropus, who all lived ...

About 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid crashed into Earth near the site of the small town of Chicxulub in what is now Mexico. The impact eradicated roughly 75% of the animal and plant species ...

The Universe could be twice as old as current estimates, according to new research from the University of Ottawa that challenges the dominant cosmological model and resolves the ‘impossible early ...

A group of researchers headed by Prof Daniel Baker of the University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics has discovered a nearly impenetrable barrier some 11,500 km above our ...

An international team of archaeologists has unearthed three 2,200-year-old, well-preserved glass mosaics at the site of the ancient city of Zeugma in Turkey. The ancient city of Zeugma, also known as ...

In a paper published this week in the journal Frontiers of Physics, a duo of researchers from Italy investigated the similarities between the network of neurons in the human brain and the cosmic ...

An analysis of a complete 1.8-million-year-old hominid skull found at the archaeological site of Dmanisi in Georgia suggests the earliest Homo species – Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis and so forth – ...

A Carboniferous-period fossil found in Nova Scotia, Canada, shows an ancient creature called a varanopid synapsid (family Varanopidae) caring for its young. “Parental care is a behavioral strategy ...

LHS 1140b is the second-closest temperate transiting exoplanet to Earth with a temperature low enough to support surface liquid water. LHS 1140 is a cool low-mass star approximately 39 light-years ...