According to evidences found, at least 21 human species existed in the history, but mysteriously only one of them is alive right now.
Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages.
New skeletal DNA analysis proves that who first called themselves English had origins in Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands.
Scientists have long believed that Fibonacci spirals are an ancient and highly conserved feature in plants. But, a new study challenges this belief.
Scientists that are studying the peak of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on Earth, have found fossilized fish and other marine creatures that have been embedded in the rock. How did so many fossils of marine creatures end up in the high-altitude sediments of the Himalayas?
Paleontologists discovered the fossilized bones of a four-legged prehistoric whale with webbed feet, off Peru's western coast in 2011. Even stranger, its fingers and toes had little hooves on them. It possessed razor-sharp teeth that it used to catch fish.
Fossil from fourth-ever discovered specimen of a titanosaur may reinforce theory that dinosaurs traveled between South America and Australia.
After researchers observed a definite similarity between several sea-floor inhabitants, a small-known carnivore species of the ocean has been assigned a new spot in the evolutionary tree of life.
A new fossil ape from Turkey challenges existing theories about human origins and suggests that the ancestors of African apes and humans evolved in Europe.
On the rocky shores of Gibraltar, archaeologists have discovered a new chamber in a cave system that was a hangout of some of Europe's last surviving Neanderthals.