Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus greatly exceeded the size of modern African elephants. Adults grew to around four meters tall at ...

A new study led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History presents the oldest known example in the fossil record of an evolutionary arms race.

Researchers have shed new light on the role played by carbon dioxide in the warming and cooling of planet Earth. A team from the University of St Andrews used fossils to work out how much CO2 changed ...

Archaeologists found 115,000-year-old human footprints in Saudi Arabia, revealing insights into ancient migration and life before the Ice Age.

Scientists have unearthed a remarkable fossil of a gorgonopsian, a saber-toothed predator they believe to be the oldest ever discovered.

A new study led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History presents the oldest known example in the fossil record of an evolutionary arms race.

Research on ancient footprints in Kenya demonstrates coexistence of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei 1.5 million years ...

The fossil discovered is that of an extinct dolphin-like reptile estimated to have lived more than 100 million years ago in ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest known animal with saber teeth: a predator that lived 270 million years ago. This animal, from before the age of the dinosaurs, was a dog-like creature that was ...

This ancient predator-prey relationship took place 517 million years ago in the ocean that once covered the region of South Australia.

Goats, rodents and habitat loss threatened the snails on Deserta Grande Island, so the mollusks were reintroduced on a ...

A quarry in South East England has yielded a fascinating paleontological discovery: long tracks with a total of 200 footprints left by enormous dinosaurs that roamed the earth during the Middle ...