Cryolophosaurus was one of the earliest large carnivorous dinosaurs, thriving in what was once a cool, forested Antarctica. Fossil evidence shows it stood at the top of the food chain during a ...

Tyrannosaurus rex lived longer and took more time to reach its maximum size than previously thought, according to a new study ...

Nature study examines hominin fossils from Thomas Quarry I, Casablanca Fossils show mixed archaic and derived traits, securely dated Findings highlight North Africa’s key role in human evolution ...

Hallucigenia was such an odd animal that palaeontologists reconstructed it upside-down when they first analysed its fossils - ...

Museum scientists have identified and described an extinct rhinoceros species from Canada’s High Arctic. Researchers at the ...

Researchers were able to sequence the full genome from the 14,000-year-old chunk of preserved woolly rhinoceros meat.

A 67-million-year-old claw fossil reveals a new dinosaur species that may have used its hand spikes to snatch and pierce eggs ...

The specimen was found at Mazon Creek fossil beds, a site known for its beautifully preserved animals and plants.

Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin, not long after the first complex animals took shape.

An African hominin population that existed very early in the Homo sapiens lineage is providing new insights into humanity's ...

For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...

The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by ...