A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the ...

Scientists believe they have uncovered the 'missing link' in human evolution, showing how our species may have evolved.

A new study in Nature led by scientists at New York University reports that fossil bones as old as 3 million years still ...

Today, rock wallabies are seen as secretive cliff-dwellers that rarely stray far from the safety of their rocky shelters. But ...

For decades, two small bone pieces sat quietly in a museum drawer in Alaska, labelled as mammoth remains and largely ...

Earth’s first sponges may have been ghostly, soft-bodied pioneers—ancient animals that evolved long before their skeletons ...

The first thing visitors see when they enter the newly opened Natural History Museum in Abu Dhabi are four massive ...

Paleontologists Susannah Maidment and Chinzorig Tsogtbaatar share details about some of the cool dinosaurs discovered last ...

A fossil of Manipulonyx reshetovi, found in a Mongolian desert, shows how the dinosaur used its specialized claw to snatch ...

Recent analysis by Oxfam has revealed that in just over ten days into 2026, the world's richest 1 per cent of people have ...

A mass extinction created the ecological conditions that set the stage for a dramatic shift in marine life.

Fossils of tiny, jawless marine animals reveal tooth structures sharper than sharks or steel, forcing scientists to rethink ...