The way Sahelanthropus tchadensis moved has long been debated. The discovery of a small bump on the front of the thigh bone ...

The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

A devastating ice age wiped out most marine life, yet new research reveals how this ancient disaster unexpectedly paved the ...

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

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

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

A fossil plant smaller than a fingernail, collected more than a century ago from a Scottish rock bed, is reshaping the story ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

Learn about the most complete Homo habilis fossil ever found, and how this fossil is changing what we know about human ...

Today, rock wallabies rarely stray far from the safety of their rocky shelters. But the fossil record tells a very different ...

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

Prehistoric sharks appeared hundreds of millions of years before dinosaurs and quickly became dominant marine predators. This ...