The first known cases of accidental choking have been discovered, dating back 150 million years, when some opportunistic fish ...

A university student on a fossil-hunting field trip in Dorset made a stunning discovery: a 145-million-year-old jawbone ...

Researchers have sequenced proteins from an ancient rhino relative from the cold, dry Haughton crater site (shown) in the ...

A University of Portsmouth student has discovered a new species of prehistoric mammal dating back 145 million years to the ...

While fossil hunting in a riverbed, a large and well-preserved megalodon shark tooth was recovered underwater. This video documents the search, highlights identifying features of megalodon teeth, and ...

Scientists have identified a flying reptile species that lived around 209 million years ago, during the Late Triassic period.

Scientists at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science are celebrating a discovery that they have called "nothing short of ...

Analysis - For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early humans: Paranthropus robustus. It walked upright, and was built ...

A Smithsonian-led research team has discovered the oldest known pterosaur in North America, a sea gull-sized winged reptile ...

The oldest protein fragments ever recovered have been extracted from fossilised teeth found in Kenya's Rift Valley, revealing ...

Proteins degrade over time, making their history hard to study. But new research has uncovered ancient proteins in the enamel ...

Fossils of the pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park. The fossils date back 209 million years.