While it shares features with modern humans, H. habilis also has traits that would have given it an advantage in climbing ...

Astronomers have identified a rare sednoid called Ammonite, an icy object beyond Neptune that offers new insight into the ...

Whatever happened to the duck-billed dinosaur, it was a real pain in the butt. Many of the spines sitting atop the animal’s tail vertebrae had been fractured. The dinosaur, known as Olorotitan to ...

A new study published in Scientific Reports suggests ammonites did not vanish immediately after the asteroid impact 66 million years ago. Fossils from Denmark indicate some survived for up to 200,000 ...

In the aftermath of the giant asteroid that crashed into the Yucatan Peninsula about 66 million years ago, approximately 75% of all species on Earth were wiped out, including the dinosaurs. Among ...

While dinosaurs were wiped out when a massive asteroid struck Earth, ammonites survived the massive explosion, only to disappear shortly after, as per a recent study published in Scientific Reports.

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the oldest human ancestor. A new analysis by a team of anthropologists offers ...

A grapefruit-sized dinosaur egg from a fossil bed in China gave paleontologists a huge surprise. Rather than a dinosaur embryo or sediment, it was filled with sparkling crystals of calcite lining the ...

The Atlantic’s Science, Technology, and Health desk has had a busy 2025: Our writers have spent the year probing the limits of human consciousness and gene-editing technology, studying the ubiquity of ...