An international team in South Africa has pinned the earliest known use of fire by Homo erectus back to between 1.07 and 1.79 million years ago.

The discovery provides new insights into how our ancestors first began to harness one of the most important tools in human ...

A nearly complete skeleton from South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves, known as Little Foot, may represent a distinct branch of ...

A single vertebra collected from James Ross Island in 1985 sat in a British Antarctic Survey drawer for four decades, logged ...

Researchers have identified a previously unknown fossil ape from Egypt that could alter long-held ideas about the origins of ...

A new study suggests early humans were using fire in South Africa’s Wonderwerk Cave as far back as 1.79 million years ago. Researchers found burned bones deep inside the cave, where natural wildfires ...

Dinosaur backbone is the first found on the icy continent, and belongs to a titanosaur around 6–7 meters in length. First ever dinosaur remains found in Antarctica described Fossil belongs to an ...

Somewhere beneath the Atlantic's surface, trillions of microscopic cells are quietly drawing a border no map has ever shown.

A small fossil collected on an Antarctic island more than four decades ago is a tail vertebra of a titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur that roamed Antarctica roughly 83 million years ago, according to a ...

The skeleton was surrounded by a dark smudge that appeared to be the remnants of a fuzzy body. It was small enough to pop in ...

Dr Mike Thomson’s 1985 geological field notebook next to the dinosaur fossil vertebra found in Antarctica. Credit: British ...

Think the chances of finding the right person for you—that needle in a haystack—are stacked against you, so to speak? Well, why not just burn down all the haystacks to find that needle? That's what ...