The first known fossilized handprints of a two-legged meat-eater suggest that dinosaurs like T. rex had palms that faced each other, a posture seen in modern bird wings.
A rare, well-preserved fossil of a pelagornithid's head has been unearthed in Peru, researchers said. The bird had toothlike projections on its beak, perhaps to help it catch prey.
1.5-million-year-old prints found in Kenya suggest that the human ancestors who made them had a foot structure that put a spring in their steps just as modern humans have today.
An unusual stegosaur found in Portugal shows that the new dinosaur evolved a neck much longer than those of its peers, possibly to reach taller food sources.
Some 2,000 years ago, a ship laden with marble blocks sank off the coast of modern-day Turkey. Nautical archaeologists have found the stones' source and destination.
Underwater archaeologists in Florida have discovered secrets from a time when wooly mammoths, giant sloths, and huge tortoises roamed a landscape quite different from today's sunshine state.
Cooking made early humans' food easier to digest, making them more energy-efficient and spurring evolutionary changes we're still grappling with, researchers suggest.
Initial readings of the genes suggest that the extinct human species was lactose-intolerant and could have shared some basic language capabilities with modern humans.
For the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, National Geographic News asked leading scientists for their picks of the most important fossil evidence for evolution.
Archaeologists in Mexico City have discovered a mass grave of what may have been the last warriors to resist conquistador Hernán Cortés, who took the Aztec capital in 1521.
A new computer model suggests animals don't need to be fast or strong to lead their flocks, herds, or swarms, but only willing—or desperate—to break from their neighbors and go their own way.
