In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified a remarkable new flying reptile species, Bakiribu waridza, a 100-million-year-old regurgitat.
Did dinosaurs live in Alabama? Fossils, museum finds and the famous Selma dinosaur egg reveal the state’s prehistoric past.
Sixty-six million years ago, a massive asteroid smashed into Earth. Life has undergone at least five mass extinctions in the ...
In biology and palaeontology (the study of extinct organisms) there are a few ways to estimate the age of an animal’s skeleton. One is the extent of fusion of sutures in the skeleton – how much the ...
A 7.2-million-year-old femur found in Bulgaria reveals early signs of upright walking and reopens the debate on human origins.
Scientists have identified a strange early crocodile relative that may have looked somewhat like a flightless bird ...
An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like redrawing our family tree and transforming the hunt for Ancestor X ...
An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like redrawing our family tree and transforming the hunt for Ancestor X ...
• 13 million years ago, a medium-sized monkey known for guarding its territory among the treetops with a fearsome “howl” started doing something new. This monkey, one of the oldest known ancestors of ...