In my childhood, fire had two faces. The first: friendly, vivacious, exuberant. Like a puppy with sharp teeth and too much ...

For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use—people cleaning their teeth with sticks or fibers, or easing gum pain with makeshift "toothpicks." ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists discovered a trilobite fossil in Spain, likely from the Roman era. The trilobite fossil is only the 11 th ever ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale Campus of Midwestern University in Arizona, produced a virtual ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eocene Fossils of a Beetle, Wasp and Mosquito in Sandstone and 38-55 Million Years in Age.© I. Pilon/Shutterstock.com The post ...

A newly unearthed fossil has led experts to believe an ancient species of crocodile may have been an apex predator that hunted dinosaurs on land. Paleontologist and National Geographic Explorer Diego ...

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong anatomical evidence that Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, including a ...

Thousands of years ago in a cave on Hispaniola, an unusual chain of events left behind a rare scientific treasure: bees nesting inside fossilized bones. After giant barn owls repeatedly brought prey ...

Eocene Fossils of a Beetle, Wasp and Mosquito in Sandstone and 38-55 Million Years in Age.© I. Pilon/Shutterstock.com The story begins in Cueva de Mono, a cave in the southern Dominican Republic that ...