Tags: fossils

The discovery could have huge implications for climate change studies. Looking through the back of your freezer can unearth all manner of goodies that you’d likely forgotten about, but probably...

HEAPS of alien bones may be sitting on the Moon just waiting to be discovered. That’s the bonkers claim made by one top scientist, who reckons that if extraterrestrial life...

Archaeologists have discovered fossils of an enormous, prehistoric rat that was the size of a human years ago in South America. Known as Neoepiblema acreensis, the 10-million-year-old rat weighed approximately...

We have often wondered how long life existed on Earth and now it seems we finally have an answer. Scientists have found the earliest evidence of life on planet Earth...

– The discovery of Homo naledi some years ago, an extinct hominin species caused a sensation. Suddenly we had a new human ancestor that could re-write our history and fill...

‘Baby Louie’ – the fossil dinosaur embryo and associated clutch of eggs – were first discovered in the early 1990s, in a rock formation from the western part of China’s...

– Currently, the most common view is that dinosaurs first emerged around 237 million years ago on the ancient continent known as Gondwana. A new controversial theory has been presented...

– There has long been a controversy about the timing of bison arrival in North America, but new research can shed more light on how and when the animals arrived...

– Evidence has come forth from the Po Valley, San Daniele region of Italy that in the time of the Neanderthals, the region had something in common with parts of...

– In the recent years, many interesting discoveries have been made in the Altai Mountains, Siberia. This time, researchers report they have discovered evidence porcupines lived in caves in the...