New fossil discoveries at Gran Dolina cave in northern Spain show that cannibalism practised by an ancient human relative ...

A kraken-like octopus the size of a lorry prowled Earth’s oceans back when dinosaurs ruled the land, new fossil discoveries have suggested. Scientists have believed that sharks and giant marine ...

Paleontologists are raving over a recent discovery of a well-preserved snake fossil from the Cretaceous Period, about 75 to ...

Paleontologists have announced the discovery of a new fossil honeybee species that fills a long-standing gap in the ...

A newly identified fossil ape from northern Egypt is reshaping ideas about where the ancestors of modern apes first emerged.

Mosasaur fossils excavated in Osaka in the 1990s and stored for 30 years include a bone which may represent a new species entirely.

Ambystoma quetzalcoatli is the first fossil salamander to be formally identified in Mexico, revealing that axolotls have inhabited the country for millions of years.

Long before dinosaurs ruled the continents and modern crocodiles first appeared, their ancestors were already going through a ...

In a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores, a tiny human relative once lived alongside dwarf elephants, giant rats, and Komodo dragons. Then, after thousands of years, that world began to dry out, ...

Canadian researchers studying 450-million-year-old fossils near Quebec City have identified a new species of basal-medusozoan: Paleocanna tentaculum, a soft-bodied, tube-shaped polyp with a ring of ...

New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that several human ancestor lineages lived side by side nearly 3 million years ago.

A kraken-like octopus the size of a lorry prowled Earth's oceans back when dinosaurs ruled the land, new fossil discoveries have suggested. Scientists have believed that sharks and giant marine ...