Recent discoveries in China are challenging long-held assumptions about human evolution. A new study has proposed the ...

For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were ...

Researchers say they have identified a new species of ancient hominin, Homo juluensis, that could help solve another big ...

Following college and graduate school at Yale University he worked for the U.S. Geological Survey before coming to the Smithsonian as a Curator of Fossil Plants in 1984. He was on the team that ...

Fossils provide scientists with a few clues about how dinosaurs mated, had sex, and reproduced, but much is still left to the ...

Two-Meter-Long Fossil of Lobster-Like Animal That Swam the Seas 480 Million Years Ago Discovered, Used Its Head to Catch Prey ...

grouping these fossils together seems premature,” said Ryan McRae, a paleoanthropologist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. He was not involved in Bae and Wu’s research.

New findings suggest hominins entered Eurasia roughly 200,000 years earlier than previously thought, predating the Dmanisi site in Georgia.

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China’s successful rebranding of the giant panda has created an unexpected challenge for Beijing, as it aims to balance its ...

Em casos de emergência, despejar água do mar em incêndios pode ser a melhor opção. Mas a água do mar pode ter efeitos de longo prazo sobre equipamentos e ecossistemas, como mostra um novo ...