The 1,100-year-old mystery of Montana’s lost bison hunting site finally solved

For nearly 700 years, Indigenous hunters returned to the same Montana bison kill site—until recurring droughts and changing hunting strategies suddenly drove them away.

Ancient Denisovan DNA still shapes human immunity today

Ancient encounters between humans and the mysterious Denisovans are still shaping people today.

‘Life has always managed to crawl through’: docuseries takes us back to mass extinction events

Co-creator of Walking with Dinosaurs returns with Surviving Earth, a blockbuster new series that shows ‘how life bounced back’ from deadly events throughout history.

5,000-year-old burial of man with battered skull found in kiln in Germany — and he may have been a human sacrifice

An injured man from the Corded Ware culture was buried in a pit previously used as a kiln, and he may have been sacrificed. Image credit: dpa Picture-Alliance.

The first primates may have evolved in the cold, not the tropics

A surprising new study suggests the earliest primates didn't originate in tropical forests but in cold, dry parts of North America.

Skin and color pattern of 125-million-year-old crocodile revealed by extraordinary fossil from the Pyrenees

A new study describes, for the first time in detail, the soft tissues preserved in Montsecosuchus depereti, a Lower Cretaceous crocodylomorph from the Pedrera de Meià site in the province of Lleida (Catalonia, Spain).

This perfectly preserved pterosaur wing just rewrote the fossil rulebook

An international study led by Curtin University has revealed new insights into how an ancient flying reptile was preserved in extraordinary detail for 113 million years – offering a rare glimpse into a vanished world.

This perfectly preserved pterosaur wing just rewrote the fossil rulebook

An international study led by Curtin University has revealed new insights into how an ancient flying reptile was preserved in extraordinary detail for 113 million years – offering a rare glimpse into a vanished world.

Ancient human ancestors may have first used fire 1.79 million years ago

A new method that detects whether bones have been burned reveals Homo erectus brought fires into caves far earlier than previous evidence had suggested.

A textbook assumption about early land vertebrates may be wrong

Three species that lived about 308 million years ago challenge the idea that the first land vertebrates underwent amphibian-like metamorphosis. Image credit: Gabriel Ugueto

Evidence of Fire Use by Early Humans May Date Back Nearly 1.8 Million Years

Scientists have uncovered compelling new evidence that early human ancestors, likely Homo erectus, were deliberately bringing fire into Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa as far back as 1.79 million years ago.

Chinese scientists discover new feathered dinosaur species

Chinese scientists have identified a new feathered dinosaur species dating back approximately 120 million years.

Fossils from Chinese Cave Fill Crucial Gap in History of Gigantopithecus blacki

Deep inside a limestone cave in southern China, paleontologists have uncovered an assemblage of thirteen fossilized teeth belonging to Gigantopithecus blacki, the largest primate species ever known to have lived. Image credit: Garcia / Joannes-Boyau.

Gold mining in Canada’s Yukon Territory exposed hidden burrows in the permafrost, revealing the eclectic diets of a mammoth-eating mammal

Ancient squirrel droppings packed with Ice Age DNA reveal that ground squirrels scavenged mammoths, bison, and big cats in prehistoric Yukon. image credit: Mercedes Minck/Hakai Institute

Terror birds survived millions of years longer than previously thought

A 25,000-year-old fossilized “drumstick” is helping rewrite the history of the flightless terror birds that stalked the post-dinosaur world. Image credit: Zeinner de Paula

New Duck-Billed Dinosaur Unearthed in Romania

An incomplete skeleton from Romania's Hațeg Basin has revealed a new genus and species of duck-billed dinosaur. Image credit: Tibor Pecsics.

New Species of Ancient Bear-Dog Identified in Spain | Sci.News

Paleontologists have identified a previously unknown species of bear-dog from two specimens unearthed in Barcelona, Spain. Image credit: Jesús Gamarra.