Modern human genomes and bones left behind from ancient hominins in Africa tell a complex story about the origins of our species.

A paleontologist at the National Museums of Kenya is spearheading an effort to make 3-D reconstructions of the institution’s fossils available internationally.

The 1-billion-year-old impressions have features similar to modern algae and indicate that photosynthesizing plants evolved at least that long ago.

The astronomical idea doesn’t align well with the fossil record, anthropologists argue, but the origins of bipedalism are still difficult to determine.

Fossils of two dinosaur skeletons found in New Mexico are from a species new to science that lived 92 million years ago.

From 500-million-year-old fat to a newly discovered virus, here are some stunners from The Scientist in 2018.

Researchers describe the remains of a clutch of extinct mammal-like animals.

Microbes were living on land as early as 3.22 billion years ago, fossilized rocks show, 500 million years earlier than previously documented.