For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their teeth with sticks or fibres, or easing gum pain with makeshift “toothpicks” ...

Fossilized human hairs dating backbetween 195,000 and 257,000 years have been found in the poop of brown hyenas at Gladysvale ...

When saltwater fish long ago evolved to live in fresh water, many of them also evolved a more sophisticated hearing system, ...

Dinosaur bones are found on every continent. Everywhere on earth, dinosaur fossils disappear at the end of the Cretaceous ...

The skull reconstruction points to an Asian lineage that includes Homo longi and the mysterious Denisovans. It essentially ...

Little is known about the early history of lizards, snakes and their kin. New fossil discoveries reveal a complex ...

At 11 feet (3.4m) tall and nearly 27 feet (8.2m) long, Cooper’s pointy-backed herbivore – affectionately known as Apex – is ...

Researchers have discovered a mysterious ancient lizard with snake-like teeth in Scotland. Breugnathair elgolensis is one of ...

In a remarkable stride for paleontology, researchers have identified the first fossil trace of a snake in South Africa. This ...

Homo sapiens were thought to have appeared about 600,000 years ago, but two closely related million-year-old skulls suggest that our species might be even more ancient.

Researchers investigated Yunxia 2 and uncovered that Homo Sapiens diverged from Neanderthals and Denisovans 900,000 years ago ...

The recreated skull's features suggest that the fossil belonged to the same lineage as a striking specimen called "Dragon Man ...