A newly identified 240-million-year-old animal from Tanzania is forcing scientists to rethink the early dinosaur timeline. Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda belongs to a group previously known only from ...

A remote Florida river turned into a fossil hunting jackpot when the bank started giving up Ice Age clues. The group found turtle shell, gator material, gar scales, and other mineralized bones before ...

The 4 footprints in a newly discovered T. rex trackway span about 23 feet (7 meters) in the Hell Creek Formation in North Dakota. Image via Tyler Lyson/ Denver Museum of Nature & Science. A Colorado ...

A team of Griffith University archaeologists has uncovered evidence that humans were using mind-altering substances much earlier than previously supposed. Led by Professor Adam Brumm from Griffith's ...

In 2010, researchers who had extracted DNA from an ancient finger bone revealed that it belonged to a previously unknown human relative. The fossil, recovered from Denisova Cave in Siberia, came from ...

A long-lost cave in southwestern China has offered archaeologists their first real glimpse of Denisovan culture. Denisovans were a sister species of modern humans and lived across Asia an estimated ...

An abandoned quarry in southwestern China has given scientists a portal into the Stone Age. The site’s trove of fossils and artefacts provides an unprecedented glimpse into the lives and abilities of ...

Australia needs a firmer plan to transition away from fossil-fuel production to help protect Pacific nations from the effects of climate change, according to a new report. The Australia Institute has ...

A new prehistoric animal species from Tanzania dating back around 240 million years to the Triassic period has been described by an international team of researchers. Led by the University of Bristol, ...