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

About 76 million years ago, a juvenile of one of the largest flying creatures in Earth's history, called Cryodrakon boreas, ...

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 ...

Young Fossil Hunter Found a Bit of Wood, Examination Revealed It to Be a 700,000-Year-Old Bear Tooth Around three years ago, ...

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

AN INCREDIBLE nine million year old ancestor of the great white shark has been discovered in Peru. The 23ft long beast had ...

Researchers are calling for CT scans to confirm the authenticity of a Cretaceous period fossil that led to the identification ...

Paleontologist Caleb Brown said that the fossil is "exceptionally uncommon"—not least because the pterosaur was a juvenile.

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

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 ...