Exploring Prehistoric Life
Biological anthropologists from The University of Texas at Austin have described three new species of fossil primates that were previously unknown to science. All of the new primates were residents of San Diego County at a time when southern California was filled...
It was a life-altering event. Around 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period, an...
The body of the young horse that died between 30,000 and 40,000 years ago still has hair and its hooves in an incredible discovery.
Jamie Hiscocks is a fossil hunter. More than a decade ago, he discovered a fossil on a Bexhill beach, which was confirmed as a ‘pickled’ dinosaur brain in 2016.
Paleontologists in China have discovered a 228-million-year-old extinct species of turtle, known for its weird disc-like body without a shell and its toothless beak.
228-million-year-old fossil sheds light on how turtles evolved.
An international team of researchers discovered a new species of dinosaur, Xiyunykus pengi, during an expedition to Xinjiang, China.
New fossil analysis suggests the planet's earliest known animals emerged at least 571 million years ago.
Paleontologists have discovered fossils of two Pareiasaurs, reptiles who roamed the Earth some 260 million years ago.
A study published in the journal Current Biology described a new mid-Cretaceous (99-million-year-old) boganiid beetle with specialized pollen feeding...