In a remarkable discovery, researchers have unearthed 10 new species of fossilized spiders from the Mesozoic era, including one whose eyes still reflect light, 110 million years after its death. This ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

Palaeontologists reported some remarkable dinosaur fossils this year, including a Velociraptor relative, a dome-headed ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true ...

With studies of fossilized bones, gut contents, eggshells and more, paleontologists revealed new and captivating details ...