Boffins in China have unearthed an extremely rare giant panda fossil dating back over 100,000 years. Researchers from the Guizhou Institute of Mountain Resources of the Guizhou Academy of Sciences…
Researchers have found the near-complete skeleton of a new species of dinosaur with a unique weapon resembling an Aztec 'macuahuitl' war club on its tail. The find was made in…
An international team of scientists has confirmed that this ancient ancestor of humans from nearly two million years ago that was unearthed in Africa's Cradle of Humankind is a missing-link…
These giant teeth from an extinct prehistoric megalodon shark have been found in the Atacama desert and a top expert has said that despite treasure hunters pillaging the area, Chile…
A researcher in Canada has discovered the oldest non-marine crab ever which also happens to be the most complete fossil of a crab ever discovered because it was trapped in…
This Australian velociraptor-like dinosaur once thought to have been a massive predator has been revealed to have been a "timid vegetarian" instead. The University of Queensland in Australia has released…
A flesh-eating dinosaur with horns that earned it the name 'carnivorous bull' has taken shape in a series of illustrations created by researchers studying fossil evidence, who also discovered it…
Palaeontologists have discovered a new species of fish that lived 95 million years ago. Palaeontologists from the Institute of Geology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) found the…
A well-preserved fossil of an unknown bird species which resembles the great tit has been uncovered at an UNESCO World Heritage site by German archaeologists. The well-conserved fossil of a…
University of Edinburgh experts have helped prove that fossil teeth dating back 138 million years found more than a hundred years ago in Europe are from previously unknown species of…