WASHINGTON (Reuters) - He was the Albert Einstein of his time -- aside from the fact that this long-extinct critter weighed about an ounce (28 grams), measured three inches long and munched on bugs ...

An illustration of Carpolestes simpsoni, a stem primate species that lived in Wyoming at the endof the Paleocene epoch. Credit: Doug M. Boyer/Duke University Departmentof Evolutionary Anthropology ...

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Last year, National Geographic Explorer Tyler Lyson was in Corral Bluffs on the outskirts of Colorado Springs, searching for minuscule fossils. His tool of choice? A unique filtering machine called a ...

When you learned about the history of human evolution in school, there's a good chance you were shown one all-too-familiar image. That picture probably showed a conga line of human-like creatures, ...