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Forget about hapless mates being dragged around by macho mammoth killers. The women of Ice Age Europe, it appears, were not mere cavewives but priestly leaders, clever inventors, and mighty hunters. 04.01.1998

A Secret History of Life on Land

Paleontologist Stephen Hasiotis is finding what his colleagues have long overlooked: nests, hives, and trackways that are tens of millions of years older than anyone thought they could be. 02.01.1998

The Year in Science: Animals 1997

Lost Pig Found 01.01.1998

The Year in Science: Evolution 1997

Hidden Unity 01.01.1998

The Trouble With Trilobites

09.01.1997

Killer Sloth

06.01.1997

Tusk Tales

02.01.1997

First Fish

01.01.1997

The Face of an Ancestral Child

The remains of an 11-year-old who lived and died 800,000 years ago have been found in northern Spain, at a place called Atapuerca. The child's people may have been the ancestors of Neanderthals. But the child's face was ours. 12.01.1996

Soft Silurians

11.01.1996

Mega-monkey

09.01.1996

Like a Gopher in the Sky

06.01.1996

Ludwig in the Sky With Diamonds

03.01.1996

Cretaceous Park

01.01.1996

Faster Than You'd Think

01.01.1996

Leap Forward, High Over It

01.01.1996

Coming Onto the Land

The evolution of fish into walking land animals was one of the greatest chapters in the history of life. Now a remarkable fossil creature shows that all the real excitement happened underwater. 06.01.1995

Primordial Landlubbers

04.01.1994

Masters of an Ancient Sky

For 160 million years reptiles flew above the Earth. For just over 200 years we humans have known something of their existence. But only recently have we really begun to understand their lives--or their looks. 02.01.1994

Saber-Toothed Tales

Perfect fossils from a smelly tar pit tell us what the saber-toothed cat looked like. But it's the pit's broken and mangled bones that tell us how the cat actually lived. 04.01.1993

Mysteries of the Orient

A half-billion years ago the remarkably complex forms of animals we see today suddenly appeared. A new bonanza of Chinese fossils may finally tell us why. 04.01.1993

Whose View of Life?

05.01.1992

Ruffled Feathers

A paleontologist going after the earliest bird may have ended up with a mouthful of worms. 05.01.1992

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