The most famous living fossil lis a fish called the coelacanth. It was once thought to be extinct. However, the fish hasn't changed in over 400 million years. Charles Darwin coined the term "living ...

British scientists have found scores of fossils that the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years. Dr. Howard Falcon-Lang, a ...

Fossils are used to reconstruct evolutionary history, but not all animals and plants become fossils and many fossils are destroyed before we can find them (e.g., the rocks that contain the fossils are ...

When the remains of prehistoric creatures were discovered in Europe and the United States, it opened up a vociferous debate on the nature of time and the purpose of science. A lithograph illustrating ...

Humans of New York creator Stanton (Humans) captures the beating heart of New York City—its people—in this vibrant love letter to the metropolis. Featuring portraits, most of Continue reading » Girls ...

The Netherlands is returning a major archaeological collection to Indonesia, including the skullcap discovered by Dutch scientist Eugène Dubois in 1891 which provided the first evidence of an extinct ...

It started as a curiosity atop a mantelpiece, a primate’s fossilized skull displayed as an interesting knickknack. Yet it would soon help unlock humans’ evolutionary story, providing the first clues ...