Footprints dating back 1.5 million years of two different species of human ancestors have been found at the same spot. The "huge" discovery near the shore of Lake Turkana in Kenya proves the theory ...
A rare cloud spotted above a UK town has been compared to a UFO from a Hollywood movie. Amateur snapper Dave Pickett, 38, caught the spectacular moment a 'lenticular cloud' flew above Greenfield, near ...
This 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis hominin offered valuable insights into our upright walking ancestors. However, recent findings suggest that Lucy was not the only hominin of her ...
The Amazon River dolphin (also known as the pink dolphin and botos) is a freshwater animal and a species of toothed whale. Considered the biggest and smartest animal of the freshwater dolphin species, ...
Fossils of hominins — the group that includes modern humans and our close ancestors — had been dated to 1.8 million years ago at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. A 2.5-million-year-old fossil of a ...
Cape Cod is located near important dolphin feeding grounds, and the peninsula is popular with summer whale watchers because of its diversity of species. Most of the stranded dolphins have been ...
afarensis fossil (AL 288-1), nicknamed "Lucy." About 3.2 million years ago, our ancestor "Lucy" roamed what is now Ethiopia. The discovery of her fossil skeleton 50 years ago transformed our ...
A recent analysis of fossils recovered in the 1990s in the village of Nikiti in northern Greece supports the controversial theory that apes, the ancestors of humans, evolved in Southeastern Europe ...
The clearest picture yet of our “last universal common ancestor” suggests it was a relatively complex organism living 4.2 billion years ago, a time long considered too harsh for life to flourish. If ...
A team of marine biologists at the University of Southern Denmark has discovered a solo male dolphin living in the Baltic Sea, who appears to be talking to himself. In their paper published in the ...