It turns out that peaches may have been a popular snack even before the arrival of modern humans.
Researchers have identified a 30-million-year-old baleen whale fossil that once lived in the North Pacific Ocean. The whale fossil is shedding light on the evolution of baleen whales.
After examining a demineralized bone from an 80-million-old hadrosaur fossil, researchers at North Carolina State University have found some of the dinosaur's original blood vessels.
Fossil dinosaur tracks may give researchers insight into the lives of prehistoric giants. The researchers are taking a closer look at these tracks to better understand these massive animals.
About 390 million years ago, the first vertebrate animals moved from water to land. Now, scientists are learning a bit more about how this evolution occurred.
Falling oxygen levels caused by global warming could be a greater threat to the survival of life on Earth than flooding as climate change continues.
Bonobos may have entered the Stone Age. For the first time ever, scientists have seen bonobos making sophisticated use of pre-agricultural tools in a way that's similar to what archaic pre-humans once did.
A recent study revealed that as climate change heightens, it will increase the spread of malaria within various regions of Africa.
It turns out that Earth's very first ecosystems were far more complex than previously thought. Computer simulations have revealed the some of the first large, complex organisms on Earth formed complex ecosystems.
A rare dog-sized fossil of a horned dinosaur has been identified by researchers. The unusual fossil dated to the Cretaceous period, around 66-100 million years ago.
Global warming may be happening faster than we once thought. Scientists have found that greenhouse emissions that arise naturally are also affected by increased temperatures.