Tools used for digging up underground plant foods, supporting the idea of a plant-based diet among early humans.

A submerged river valley under the Madura Strait was found packed with Homo erectus fossils and other bones submerged since ...

Sphenodraco scandentis is a relative of lizards that would have climbed among the trees in ancient Jurassic forests.

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Brazil's National Museum offered a glimpse of its renovated building and collection on Monday, two days ...

Strata: Stories from Deep Time’ explores the origins of the air we breathe and untangles some of our planet’s oldest stories.

Humans and our ancestors have been creating tools, art, and everyday objects for millions of years, and each unexpected ...

An international team of scientists with a variety of backgrounds has found evidence that a boomerang found in a cave in ...

A “remarkably well-preserved” fossil discovered in Brazil, dating back 113 million years, is now the oldest ant to have ever been found by scientists, a new study has revealed. The ancient ...

A newly discovered "hell ant" fossil may be the oldest ant ever found, scientists say. This fossilized insect was unearthed in what is now northeastern Brazil and lived around 113 million years ...

Life Oldest ant fossil ever found shows how ants took over the world A fossilised 113-million-year-old hell ant from Brazil adds to the evidence that the first ants evolved in the southern ...

Found in 1968 at Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge, Twiggy, or OH 24, is one of the oldest Homo habilis skulls. The skull, which was flattened over time, was not immediately recognized as a crucial find.

This image provided by the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution in March 2025, shows a fossil of the left midface of a hominin between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years old ...