The fossils of Palaeohodites naduensis—whose genus name comes from the Greek words for “ancient” and “wanderer”—were found in 1995 near the village of Quelin in southern China.

The ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus catalogued the coordinates of the stars. Now, his efforts have finally been uncovered. This cross-fade montage shows a detail of the palimpsest under ...

You may think Nebraska and China have little in common, but the two places definitely share one ancient similarity: the presence of a 30-million-year-old primate lineage which headed to North ...