Our single-celled ancestor lived in a world without plants, animals or oxygen-rich oceans. Yet, this seemingly simple microorganism took the first steps toward complex life. From this ancestor emerged ...

BEIJING, March 5 (Xinhua) -- Fossils of two fish from over 400 million years ago -- one a tiny streamlined creature, the other a giant among vertebrates of its time with bizarre teeth -- have been ...

Chinese paleontologists have discovered the world's oldest complete bony fish fossils, dating back 436 million years ...

A few teeth, smaller than a grain of rice, are changing the map of your earliest primate relatives. They come from a creature called Purgatorius, a tiny tree-dwelling mammal that lived about 66 ...

An early figure in the psychoanalytic movement, Jung is often written off. But his ideas of the collective unconscious and emphasis on archetype and myth resonate.

The molecular building blocks that make up the cells of humans, animals and plants so sophisticated appear to be older than scientists previously ...

The Myrtle Beach Pinball Museum in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina is here to remind you that fun existed before smartphones ...

These 6 locations offer vintage aircraft and thrilling experiences! Lake Erie sparkles just outside this unique museum in ...

Homo erectus skulls from China’s Yunxian archaeological site revealed ages close to two million years—a million years older ...

In a paper in Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, researchers argue that a 7.2-million-year-old femur from the Azmaka site preserves a blend of traits consistent with an early, transitional ...

A resurrected ancient enzyme is helping scientists test how reliably Earth’s oldest rocks record signs of life.