A team of paleontologists has meticulously documented an astonishing 16,600 individual footprints within Toro Toro, a ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

Giant anacondas grew large early and kept that size for millions of years, surviving climate shifts and habitat changes ...

Historians have long debated the height of Ancient Greeks, imagining either towering heroes or smaller-than-modern people.

A mega-catalog of 1,231 fossils reveals that Homo was never a rare species in Omo-Turkana and rewrites the history of our ...

Many wonders are described in ancient Greek stories, but few figures stand out as boldly as Talos, the giant made of shining ...

Snakes come in all sizes today, from tiny thread snakes no longer than a pencil to green anacondas that rival small cars in ...

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

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The Laetoli site in Tanzania is globally famous for its australopithecine trackways, which remain the only tracks of these ...

Fossil analysis reveals anacondas reached giant size 12 million years ago and have remained largely unchanged, offering rare ...