Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

Learn more about Eotephradactylus mcintireae, the oldest Late Triassic Pterosaur in North America that was about the size of sea gull.

Pangaea looked nothing like you remember from school - this attempt to rebuild it might change how you see the world ...

A 259-million-year-old fossil skull of Yinshanosaurus angustus has been found, filling a key evolutionary gap in ...

Researchers have discovered a new species of pterosaur - a winged reptile that lived alongside dinosaurs 200 million years ...

Scientists in Antarctica have dug out ice that can be from as far back as 1.2 million years. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to researcher Carlo Barbante, about what he hopes to learn from the ice.

An illustration of the Homo erectus child with her mother in the Ethiopian highlands, two million years ago Diego Rodríguez Robredo. Archaeologists are rewriting the story of an early human child ...

In geologic terms, a million years ago was the Pleistocene age (2.5 million years BC to 11,711 years BC), and Earth was five to 10 degrees colder than it is today.

A study published in 2023 suggests that nearly 1 million years ago, humanity almost ceased to exist. This potential mass extinction event was discovered by researchers when they began analyzing ...

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants managed to people the rest of the world ...

Grass: It's What's For Dinner (3.5 Million Years Ago) : The Salt If you want to go paleo in your diet, invest in a lawn mower. An examination of fossilized teeth from early humans and their ...