Sponges may be ancient, but their timeline has been murky. New research suggests the earliest sponges were soft and ...

For ninety million years, a two-pound skeleton lay hidden in the red sandstones of Patagonia.

Researchers proved that a misidentified skeleton from the 19 th century actually belongs to infamous outlaw Johannes Bückler, also known as Schinderhannes. Genealogical research found a living ...

A new, wide-ranging exploration of human remains casts doubt on a long-standing theory in archaeology known as the Kurgan hypothesis -- which, among other claims, suggests that humans first ...

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A new species of dinosaur has been identified from a partial skeleton discovered in Colorado, researchers said. The Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae was a small ornithischian dinosaur that walked on two ...