Paleontologists have long wrestled with the challenge of identifying the genders of dinosaurs from the fossils they leave ...

There’s plenty of rough sex in the animal kingdom, but dinosaur copulation may have been so violent that it literally broke ...

It's hard believe now, but we weren't always the only hominins walking around on Earth, and in the past, multiple hominins ...

Researchers have generally thought that only prehistoric males hunted—but what if evidence against that idea has been lying ...

Scientists have discovered evidence of stone megastructures on the Karst Plateau on the border of Slovenia and Italy that were most likely built before the Late Bronze Age. These enormous structures ...

Rob Salguero-Gomez receives funding from NERC. I’ve long been fascinated by one of the most stubborn patterns in biology: males and females rarely live the same length of time. In humans, women nearly ...

His conviction followed a five-day trial, where prosecutors say the jury learned how “Stout exploited and coerced multiple women to perform sexual acts on him in exchange for bonds.” Court documents ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A former bail bondsman in Indianapolis convicted of human trafficking for exploiting female inmates was sentenced to 38 years in prison, the Marion County Prosecutor's Office announced ...

The color blue is hard to come by. Unlike red, yellow, and white, which occur readily in mineral form, blue is a rarity. For prehistoric people living in western Eurasia, an area roughly covering ...

If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years. While the volcano is ...

A 1.8 million-year-old human jawbone has been unearthed in the hills of Georgia — and scientists say the fossil could offer major clues into some of the earliest prehistoric human settlements in ...

OROZMANI, Georgia — Archaeologists in Georgia have unearthed a 1.8-million-year-old jawbone belonging to an early species of human that they say will shed light on some of the earliest prehistoric ...