Whenever anything is written about the Denisovans, the word "mysterious" is almost guaranteed to appear. That is because we ...

The Denisovan story began in 2010, when genetic material from a finger bone found in Siberia’s Denisova Cave revealed an ...

The Sphinx is one of ancient Egypt's most enigmatic monuments, and now scientists have found that it could be hiding a very unusual secret.

Scientists have identified a new species of ancient, squid-like belemnite from Wyoming after discovering the thickest ...

Get an exclusive look inside Paxton Gate, a San Francisco oddities shop filled with two-headed animals, unusual skulls, ...

A team of paleontologists from China University of Geosciences (Beijing) studying penguin fossils from Seymour Island off the Antarctic Peninsula have demonstrated how ancient bird bones can act as ...

Learn how scientists are using ancient fossils and machine learning to reconstruct ancient soundscapes. The Jurassic Era ended 145 million years ago. Everything we know about this period has been ...

A 50-million-year-old slab preserves hundreds of freshwater herring—and a window into an ancient landscape unrecognizable ...

Learn about a 480-million-year-old leech fossil that revealed that ancient leeches didn’t have the biological components necessary to suck blood. It’s the beginning of the spooky season, which means ...

Leo Youngdahl was hoping to find one of his favorite fossils when he turned over a rock at a Nebraska park. Instead, he ...

A pile of rock on a mountain hillside holds bugs, leaves, and seeds that are about 34 million years old. You can pry them loose with your own hands. Then you get to take every single one home. The ...