Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists have unearthed in Arizona fossils from an assemblage of animals, including North America's oldest-known flying reptile, that reveal a time of transition when venerable ...

Long ago, approximately 2.6 million years ago during the Ice Age, prehistoric animals roamed throughout the U.S., including Louisiana. Prehistoric megafauna like the mastodon, which were large, ...

Anatolia, the western part of modern-day Turkey that sits at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, is a fossil-rich land crucial to unlocking the mysteries surrounding the evolution of mammals ...

Artistic reconstruction of a newly hatched troodontid-like dinosaur resting among fragments of its eggshell (loosely based on Mongolian microtroodontid-type). These eggshells, when buried within ...

Paleontologists have revealed a previously unknown species of early bird following the discovery of a remarkable "one-of-a-kind" fossil. The prehistoric species, named Navaornis hestiae, lived ...

Layers of rock can tell the story of life on Earth, but only if you know when each chapter was written. For many dinosaur sites, that date has been little more than a rough guess. Now, a team of ...

In the first of a new series, curator Dr Neil Adams shares the stories and science of the fossil mammal collection.