Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

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Tiny fossil teeth from Colorado are revealing new clues about the very first relatives of primates, including humans.

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According to a new study, any alien civilizations out there? Probably short-lived — and doomed to fail spectacularly. For ...

There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” That observation, attributed to ...

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

An intriguing religious issue is raised by an odd space-age colloquy in mid-February between Barack Obama and Donald Trump.

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