Scientists have uncovered the earliest evidence of a complex brain in a 520 million-year-old fossil arthropod. The well-preserved three-inch long c...
A newly described dinosaur resembled a weird combination of parrot, vampire bat and porcupine. Pegomastax africanus, which measured less than two f...
A wolf-like dinosaur hunted primitive flying birds that had not yet mastered the art of fast take-offs, according to a study of new fossils. Scient...
A mystery mammal with sharp digging claws has shed new light on the animals that walked the earth after dinosaurs. Ancient Mongolian rocks have pro...
At least three species from the human family Homo may have lived together in Africa almost two million years ago, new research suggests. One of the...
The smallest mammoth known to have ever existed has been identified by scientists. Mammuthus creticus, was roughly the size of a modern baby Afric...
Separate species of ancient human ancestors co-existed 3.4m years ago, a dramatic fossil find has shown. While one species walked upright on land, ...
A mysterious stone age people, a species of human distinct from our own, may have lived in China as recently as 11,500 years ago, Fossil remains w...
As job descriptions go, fossil hunter is right up there with chocolate taster, ninja, paradise island caretaker and senior armageddon avoidance engineer. But no-one really does this for a living, right? Wrong.
Archaeologists were baffled when they discovered 75 fossilised whales in a desert in Chile. Pictures of the 2010 find, recently released to the Ass...
A "dinosaur mummy", two colourful swirling ammonites and a triceratops' skull have gone to auction at Sothebys Paris. The mummy, a tenontosaure dinosa...
