Researchers analyzing ancient fossils from caves across Western Australia have uncovered a completely new species of bettong ...

New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills with its own style of bipedal walking. The evidence shows that multiple early ...

A team of researchers has discovered 16,600 footprints belonging to theropods — the dinosaur group that includes the ...

A new dome-headed dinosaur speices found in Montana, Brontotholus harmoni, reveals unexpected clues about their evolution.

A new study shows that Cleveland's famous sea monster Dunkleosteus terrelli actually had a more normal size and jaw than ...

Around 120 million years ago, a bird swallowed over 800 tiny stones and choked to death as a result. Paleontologists aren’t ...

For starters, the tiny bird had over 800 tiny stones in its throat, way above what you’d expect. Furthermore, based on their ...

Dinosaur fossils have been dug up for well over a century, but every so often something turns up inside them […] ...

A fossilised bamboo stem from the Ice Age has been found in Manipur, which throws light on how the warm and humid conditions of Northeast India supported plant life at a time when other regions proved ...

The discovery of Australia’s oldest known crocodile eggshells is giving UNSW scientists new insight into the animals and ecosystems that existed millions of years ago, long before Australia separated ...

Researchers have finally assigned a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, confirming that Lucy’s species wasn’t alone in ancient Ethiopia. This hominin had an opposable big ...