For David Burnham, paleontology isn’t just a science — it’s storytelling, and the stories are written in ancient creatures’ ...

Our human species emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago but scientists don't yet have a clear picture of what kind of ...

More than 230 million years ago, long before giant dinosaurs thundered across Earth, a chicken-sized creature walked near the ...

One of the largest crocodilians that ever lived preyed on dinosaurs. New research has found the fearsome Deinosuchus had a ...

Human beings don’t have a thick coat of fur like many other mammals do. Scientists think it has to do with something else ...

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The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and the ability to birth live young ...

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Dinosaur extinction theories suggest populations were dwindling when an asteroid wiped them out. New research is challenging ...

A new study challenges the belief that dinosaurs were declining before the asteroid impact that ended their reign. Analysing 18 million years of fossil data, researchers argue that apparent drops ...

Animals and humans have always coexisted. Before cities, nomadic hunter-gatherers depended on animals for food, transport, ...