Brand New Day trailer has finally arrived! The footage reveals that Tom Holland’s Peter Parker is getting organic webbing.

The original skull, digital scan, and reconstructed face of Little Foot. Credit: Amélie Beaudet. Scientists have finally ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

Two fossil skulls found in central China are prompting fresh debate over when they lived – and where they belong in the human family tree.

Homo erectus skulls from China’s Yunxian archaeological site revealed ages close to two million years—a million years older ...

Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the evolution of the vertebrate eye. New research suggests that it traces back to a cyclopean invertebrate with a single eye atop the head. By Carl Zimmer Look at ...

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis. Scientists ...

A few teeth, smaller than a grain of rice, are changing the map of your earliest primate relatives. They come from a creature called Purgatorius, a tiny tree-dwelling mammal that lived about 66 ...

First discovered 20 years ago, the rare fossil combo reveals a Cretaceous meal in the making. By Laura Baisas Published Feb 18, 2026 4:00 PM EST Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo erectus fossils in eastern Asia. A recent study has re-dated the skulls to ...

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate understanding of the ancient encounters that put it there. By Carl Zimmer One of ...

There is no shortage of great tabletop games based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, including The One Ring role-playing game, a highly successful Magic: The Gathering set, and The Lord of ...