An international research team, including Yale’s Pieter van Dokkum, has discovered a trio of supermassive “Red Monster” ...

Signs of temporarily delayed tooth development in the skull of an ancient Homo species youth spark debate about the origins of humanlike growth.

[Related: The ‘granddaddy’ of all early hominins walked on Earth a lot longer than we thought.] Fossil teeth can help us ...

This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator.' ...

Researchers hope the "exquisitely preserved" fossil will cast new light on an enduring mystery in paleontology.

Geologists found evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of millions of ...

The origin of life, and how to get to that very point, have been as mysterious as they are fascinating. It is one of the greatest questions that humans have att ...

It was the most complete early hominid skeleton at that time — by a lot (SN: 1/4/75). Geology had worked in Johanson and Gray’s favor. Lucy’s remains were not found where she died. Flooding had ...

In a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers examined lithium isotope compositions in the Ediacaran Doushantuo cap dolostone to test the plumeworld ...

So, it's tempting to think that SMBHs also grow through mergers when galaxies merge together. The problem is, in the early ...

Pikes Peak, originally named Tavá Kaa-vi by the Ute people, lends its ancestral name, Tava, to these notable rocks. They are composed of solidified sand injectites, which formed in a similar manner to ...

How Life Began on Earth: Modeling Earth's Ancient Atmosphere Oct. 31, 2024 — This model reveals how vastly different the atmosphere was on ancient Earth, and how life may have first ...