While excavating for oil in Alberta in March 2011, miner Shawn Funk spotted something unusual. What he found that day turned out to be one of the most stunning and important fossils unearthed in ...

Puzzle lovers are getting the heebie-jeebies over this “freaky optical illusion,” which makes people’s faces look hideously distorted. A now-viral video detailing the fun house mirror-like ...

The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, two papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs to this group, after examining preserved DNA and proteins ...