Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't ...

A scan of the bone found that the edges of the puncture don’t match the break points on the rest of the bone, meaning it wasn’t caused during the fossilization process, and cemented and compacted ...

The fossilized remains belong to Cosmopolitodus hastalis – an extinct mackerel shark closely related to the modern great ...

Citizen science is evolving in classrooms, as students contribute to understanding the ancient ecology of sharks through ...

A jawbone found in a Moroccan mine was thought to be a novel species of marine reptile from the Cretaceous period, but other ...

A study on the teeth of ancestors to humans that lived around 3.5 million years ago suggests they ate mainly or only plants.

A fossil once hailed as evidence of a unique mosasaur species, Xenodens calminechari, may be a forgery, a new study claims.

A “ serrated blade” found sticking from a rock in the United Kingdom has been identified as a “nearly perfect” prehistoric ...

A fossil first discovered in a Moroccan mine turned out to be a new species. But now some scientists are concerned that it ...

A mosasaur species with saw-like teeth that was described by scientists in 2021 may have been based on forged fossils, and ...

The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances ...