Catholic Spies in the New World? Relics Pose New Puzzle about Early American Colony
A recently unearthed burial in Jamestown, Va., from the early 1600s shows signs of Catholic rituals that are hard to explain in a colony set against the papacy
Melting Mummies Are on Thin Ice, Thanks to Climate Change
Glacial archaeologists scramble to save long-preserved specimens thawing out of vanishing ice before they are lost forever
4-Legged Fossil Snake Is a World First
"Hugging" creature from Brazil shakes up picture of snake evolution
Oldest Animal Sperm Found inside Fossilized Worm Cocoon
The remains of a preserved 50-million-year-old cell may provide clues to the evolution of earthworms and leeches
Could These Be the Oldest Human Footprints in North America?
Ancient coastal dwellers made tracks just below the tide line of an island off British Columbia, but the big question is when
Ancient American Genome Rekindles Legal Row
“Kennewick Man” sequencing points to Native American ancestry
The Most Momentous Year in the History of Paleoanthropology
In an excerpt from his new book Ian Tattersall lays out the story of how a scientific giant in the field of evolution put forth a spectacularly incorrect theory about the diversity of hominids
75-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Soft Tissue Suggests Ancient Organic Preservation May Be Common
Researchers have found what appear to be collagen fibers and blood cells in unremarkable-looking fossils
How I Dissected a T. Rex [Video]
Hint: it took chain saws, feathers and lots of latex, says vertebrate palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist Stephen Brusatte
Ancient Human Migration Route Marked by Snail Shell "Bread Crumbs"
Fragments of edible marine snail shells found in Lebanon support the idea that ancient humans went from Africa to Europe through the Levant. Cynthia Graber reports
CSI: Middle Pleistocene
Skull fragments dating back 430,000 years appear to be those of the world's first known murder victim, based on the damage observed. Dina Maron reports
New Human Ancestor Discovered Near Fossil of "Lucy"
The Australopithecine lived about 3.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia, around the same time as Australopithecus afarensis