Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in Africa’s fossil record of human origins.

New Jersey is home to not one, but two, of the best new museums in the United States, according to the USA TODAY 10BEST ...

David Stevenson stood in a circle of friends and colleagues in an Orlando, Florida, hotel lobby. Everyone but him wore ...

Radioactive minerals in eggshells can help scientists pinpoint a fossil’s age with stunning accuracy. Scientists excavate dinosaur egg nests in Mongolia's Eastern Gobi Basin. National Geographic ...

Whether it’s truck traffic in and out of Port Newark or trash incineration in the Ironbound, the predominantly Black and brown residents of the state’s largest city are subjected to environmental ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. If you grab the ancient musk ox by the horns, you just might find a new genus and species. A New Mexico fossil ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale Campus of Midwestern University in Arizona, produced a virtual ...

The fossil, found in South Africa's Sterkfontein Caves in 1998 and dubbed "Little Foot," has been widely believed to be a member of the Australopithecus genus, a lineage of ape-like upright walkers ...

Fossil seashells in New York’s streambeds aren’t just cool finds - they’re clues to a time when the entire region was buried under a prehistoric sea. These imprints helped scientists rewrite Earth’s ...

The bitter cold weather in New Jersey today, Tuesday, Dec. 9, has teed up a potentially slippery travel day Wednesday, Dec. 10, as an Alberta clipper moves in, bringing a wintry mix of accumulating ...

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ordered his cabinet on Monday to craft a road map to reduce dependence on fossil fuels, a promise the country made as host of United Nations climate talks ...