A new species of early odontocete—or toothed whale—is giving us a closer look into what some of the earliest ancestors of present-day dolphins may have looked like. In a study published June 23 in the journal PeerJ Life and Environment, ...

Cave paintings and markings uncovered by anthropologists and archaeologists can be categorized as art—some may even count as early forms of writing. Despite finding drawings in caves across Europe and as far as Indonesia from thousands of years ago, relatively ...

While both humans and horses can sport shoes, our equine friends don’t need to worry about maintaining their toes. However, that was not always the case. A new literature review published on June 21 in the journal Royal Society Open ...

Living at the extremes of the Triassic era would’ve been pretty rough. It started and finished with massive extinction events, picking up from the end of the single-continent Permian period around 250 million years ago, and giving way to the Jurassic ...

There are some places in the world that are just magnets for dinosaurs—Utah’s Cedar Mountain Formation, the fossil beds of Liaoning, China, Alberta’s Dinosaur Provincial Park. In the UK, one such hot spot is the Isle of Wight, a 148 ...

Around 1,500 of the living lizard species on Earth fall into the skink family—a category of small reptiles noted for their unusually short legs and lack of a distinct neck. These chunky little creatures are found pretty much everywhere—the islands ...

If you see one of the thousands of billions of the planet’s ants on your kitchen counter, it’s never truly just one bug. That lone ant usually signals to an entire colony when there is both food and danger nearby. ...

In late November 1974, the world of archeology changed when scientists discovered Lucy (a nod to a famous Beatles track played over and over at the dig site), a 40-percent complete fossil of a young female Australopithecus afarensis in Ethiopia. ...

What we experience each day makes an impact on us, good or bad. After all, starting your morning with a smile from a loved one will brighten your mood quite a bit more than driving past roadkill on your a.m. ...

Ancient organisms that bobbed through Earth’s waterways at least 1.6 billion years ago may not seem to have much in common with humans, but we couldn’t have evolved without eukaryotes called Protosterol Biota. A team of researchers have found a ...