It may not have had a trunk or Dumbo ears, but the 60-million-year-old elephant ancestor with proto-tusks looms large in mammalian history, a new study says.
Gene studies linking humans to modern African apes are flawed, says a new study that argues we have more physical traits in common with the orangutans of Southeast Asia.
Scientists in Indonesia claim they have unearthed the 200,000-year-old skeleton of a giant elephant that stood more than 13 feet (4 meters) tall. Video.
With giant sperm up to ten times its body length, the male seed shrimp is the beneficiary of an evolutionary adaptation tens of millions of years in the making, a new study says.
Russell Ciochon shook our family tree 15 years ago when he announced a new form of early human ancestor found in China. Now the anthropologist says the fossil is a "mystery ape."
Found with a powerful skull and 50 stomach stones, the 110-million-year-old "parrot dinosaur of the Gobi" gives scientists a rare glimpse into dinosaur diet.
The Inca landmark was a pilgrimage site and a scaled-down version of a mythic landscape, not an imperial estate, according to a controversial new study.
Archaeologists have begun excavating more of the famed terra-cotta warriors, life-size clay figures created to guard the tomb of China's first emperor. Video.
Given away by crop circle-like formations, the pre-Stonehenge site surprised archaeologists with temple ruins, dozens of burial mounds, and two huge tombs that are among "Britain's first architecture."
The Americas' first artist may have been an Ice Age hunter in what is now Florida, according to an anthropologist who has examined a 13,000-year-old bone etching.
With a "surprisingly human" face, a newfound Spanish fossil ape species suggests the last common ancestor of humans and apes was European, not African, a new study says.
The Taliban blew up Afghanistan's two known giant Buddhas in 2001, but is there a third? Archaeologist Zemaryalai Tarzi says yes, and he's determined to find it.
In one of North America's Great Lakes, robot-assisted archaeologists may have discovered prehistoric American camps and long "drive lanes" built to guide caribou to their deaths.
Archaeologists are trying to unravel the mysteries of an unusual, inscribed 400-year-old slate tablet they dug out of a well in the early American settlement.
