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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
There is something very special about them: a fossil trackway looks as if it could have been created yesterday, and the fact that our own ancestors would have created such tracks fills them with ...
A solitary dolphin in the Baltic Sea appears to be talking to himself, potentially because he's lonely, according to a new study. Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) are social animals that ...