The tool we've identified is called a Quina scraper. This type of stone tool is well known from archaeological sites in ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation.

A stunning discovery in China is shaking up what we thought we knew about human evolution. Scientists have uncovered a ...

De-extinction — the science of resurrecting extinct species — is progressing in leaps and bounds. Here are six creatures that researchers could bring back to life.

In the mountains of Atapuerca, Spain, fragments of a 1.4-million-year-old skull have been discovered. These bones, nicknamed Pink (in reference to Pink Floyd's album "The Dark Side of the Moon"), ...

We are making additions to: Van der Laan, R., W. N. Eschmeyer & R. Fricke 2014 (11 Nov.), Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa Monograph 3882 (1), 1-230. DOI 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 Download ...

At what point can we definitively state, “Yes, now we have a new species”? Comparison of different Lambeosaurus species. Source: Goran tek-en/Wikimedia Commons New species arise through a ...

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Among the newly identified species is a pygmy pipehorse, a 4-centimeter (1.6-inch) master of camouflage found in Sodwana Bay, off the coast of South Africa in the Indian Ocean. It is the first ...