The sudden heat altered oceans’ chemical composition, which affected some top aquatic reptilian predators more than some ...

An international team has unearthed the oldest spear tip ever found in Europe and notes that it was fashioned by Neanderthals ...

As the climate got colder 24,000 years ago, Stone Age Europeans turned from hunting mammoths to hunting caribou for their fur ...

From ancient plagues to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, history is marked by devastating outbreaks. These epidemics and ...

Be glad you weren't around when these Jurassic speed demons lurked the Earth. They were faster, and deadlier, than anything alive today.

Analysis of the fossil suggests that the only two egg-laying mammals, platypuses and land-based echidnas, both descended from ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed a bone projectile point someone dropped on a cave floor between 70,000 and 80,000 years ago ...

In today’s fast-changing world, where species are constantly evolving and many are disappearing, it’s fascinating to learn ...

A host of life-size prehistoric creatures are heading to Clacton Pier for a "truly roarsome" half-term. The dinosaurs will be roaming the seaside attraction with their handlers for nine days. Loki the ...

Chimpanzees are often cast as a mirror to our darkest tendencies, embodying violence, territoriality and power struggles. In ...

The highest trophic niches in Mesozoic oceans were filled by diverse marine reptiles, including ichthyosaurians, ...

Alligators first appeared over 200 million years ago—long before the rise of dinosaurs—and have survived mass extinctions, ...