The rise of dinosaurs coincided with environmental changes driven by major volcanic eruptions over 230 million years ago.

A droplet-based protocell could have served as a link between ‘chemistry’ and ‘biology’ during the origins of life.

Footprints found at White Sands National Park in New Mexico provide the earliest unequivocal evidence of human activity in the Americas.

Study suggests that all living snakes evolved from a handful of species that survived the giant asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs

New research from Washington University in St. Louis suggests that bacteria could learn from the past to predict the future.

As we live and breathe, ancient-looking fish known as bowfin are guarding genetic secrets that that can help unravel humanity’s evolution

Research describes the discovery of three new species and hints at rapid evolution immediately after the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.

Neanderthals, long perceived to have been unsophisticated and brutish, really did paint stalagmites in a Spanish cave 60,000 years ago.

A near-perfectly preserved ancient human fossil known as the Harbin cranium sits in the Geoscience Museum in Hebei GEO University