Ancient herbivore ecosystems survived two major global reorganizations but face unprecedented modern extinction threats.

They first appeared around 240 million to 230 million years ago in the Triassic Period ... when dinosaurs first evolved, all the continents we know today were clumped together in a single landmass ...

Earth harbors incredible secrets, from remnants of a planet that formed the Moon residing deep within, to ancient auroras ...

Earlier fossils from other cicada groups had previously suggested the insects started singing around 30 million years ago. We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.

An Etobicoke man and lover of trains says he plans to travel the world after being unveiled as the $65 million jackpot winner through OLG Lotto Max. For years, Mohit Sharma says he dreamed of stepping ...

Two jaws and a maxilla. That was all the authors of the study needed to redraw the beginning of human history. These fragments, which belonged to two babies who died about two million years ago, were ...

They have shown that cold-adapted animals started to evolve 2.6 million years ago when the permanent ice at the poles became more prevalent. There followed a time when the continental ice sheets ...

Around 17,000 years ago, a man fell victim to a bloody ambush in what is now Italy, with an enemy launching sharp, flint-tipped projectiles that left gashes on his thigh and shin bones, a new ...

Their evolutionary precursors are thought to be hard structures called odontodes which first appeared not in mouths but on the external armor of the earliest fish around 500 million years ago.

Fossil footprints by Australopithecus afarensis - an extinct species of australopithecine which lived from about 3.9–2.9 million years ago in the Pliocene of East Africa. These footprints are not ...

Fossils found in Romania hint that hominins left Africa nearly two million years ago—well before previous estimates. The evidence comes from Grăunceanu, a fossil site in the Olteț River Valley.