A new study finds that neither climate change nor competition with early modern humans fully explains the Neanderthal ...

Historically, Neanderthals have been portrayed as brutish, hunched-over hominins, relatively slow of body and mind. So what ...

A newly discovered Moroccan titanosaur is reshaping what scientists thought they knew about dinosaur evolution and ancient ...

The population of the world’s last mountain gorillas has rebounded by 73% since 1989, allowing the subspecies to be ...

"Just from a person walking, the soil slides down the slope, so plants can't get rooted in it. And if the plants are ...

From the window of an airplane, I look down on the ochre expanse of western North America. At first, the vastness looks ...

New study finds that many of the state’s valuable and most recognizable trees could decline sooner than expected because ...

YouTube. A camera trap in North Sumatra has recorded a rare conservation first: a Sumatran orangutan using a rope bridge to ...

Chauvet—of southern France that most people will never see. The French government has kept it sealed since its discovery in ...

By the time modern humans began filtering into Europe around 45,000 years ago, the Neanderthals they encountered were already ...

Now, scientists apply a similar principle to ancient humans. The new study, led by Ariane Burke, PhD student at Université de ...

From the scarecrow-like silhouettes of Joshua Tree National Park to the fog-shrouded Redwood Coast of Mendocino and Humboldt ...