For over a century, biologists have puzzled over the origins of animals that first emerged in ancient oceans more than 600 ...

Human footprints stir the imagination. They invite you to follow, to guess what someone was doing and where they were going.

An individual plant or animal fossil is, even by itself, a massive chance to look into the history of our world and its ...

The way the dinosaurs relinquished their long dominance is well known. An asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ...

The way the dinosaurs relinquished their long dominance is well known. An asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago, ...

The earliest dinosaurs were unremarkable, bit players on a supercontinent crowded with other ancient reptiles when they first ...

A study of fossilised faeces and vomit has revealed how dinosaurs came to rule the earth. While the way the dinosaurs ...

Well-preserved remains found in Germany in 2015 have now been identified as a new pterosaur species, solving a 200-year-old mystery.

Snakes were not always slithering creatures. Scientists have discovered that snakes descended from lizards with legs. Over ...