A new, giant, extinct ambush predator has been described from Namibia. The 3-metre-long adult is one of the earliest ancestors of all modern animals.
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Why did the once popular settlement of Cahokia Mounds in now modern-day St Louis, suddenly have a mass exodus in 1400?
Scientists have found that ammonites were not in decline before their extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period 66 million years ago.
Degenerative skeletal changes may have been caused by the positions that the ancient Egyptian scribes sat in while performing administrative tasks during the third millennium BCE.
Scientists in a new study have described three new extinct walnut species from an island above the Arctic Circle with the fossils representing some of the oldest known species of the group, living or extinct.
The popular claim that dinosaur fossils inspired the legend of the griffin has been challenged in a new study.
An international research team have completed a new study comparing human hearts to non-human great apes, revealing a new insight into human evolution.
A new species of dinosaur has been identified and named by Colorado State University affiliate faculty member Joseph Sertich and University of Utah Professor Mark Loewen. The new dinosaur was announced in the journal PeerJ, and translates roughly to “Loki’s horned face that looks like a caribou”.
An international research team has identified the oldest fossil of a sea reptile from the Southern Hemisphere, a Nothosaur vertebra from South Island, New Zealand.