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

A 300-million-year-old fish kept its fossilized brain, letting scientists read brain shape from skulls of similar ancient ...

Over 300 million years ago, a minnow-sized fish died and fell to the bottom of a prehistoric swamp near the village of Trawden, Lancashire, in northwest England. The remains of this tiny fish—known as ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visitors take photographs of a mammoth skeleton at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum. (Kayla Bartkowski / Los Angeles Times) The ...

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Visitors take photographs of a mammoth skeleton at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum. (Kayla Bartkowski / Los Angeles Times) The back rooms of the La Brea Tar Pits are, at the moment, a maze of packing ...

The Jurassic is a geologic period of the Mesozoic Era spanning approximately 201.3 to 145 million years ago, bounded by the end-Triassic and end-Jurassic extinction events. It is subdivided into Early ...

Four years ago, a new air sampler atop a Franklin & Marshall College building sucked in a slew of filthy, charcoal-colored particles, setting professor Bob Walter on a research path ...

The report, by Climate Analytics, looked at the measures that need to be taken to keep global warming below 1.5°C by the end of the century. This threshold is the critical global climate limit ...