Mammoths were not the only enormous beasts ancient humans hunted. Elephant ancestors were also on the menu. While analyzing ...

A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they ...

When the remains of prehistoric creatures were discovered in Europe and the United States, it opened up a vociferous debate on the nature of time and the purpose of science. A lithograph illustrating ...

Fossils of a mastodon, a giant prehistoric relative of today's elephants, have been discovered at an artisanal gold mine in central Colombia in a find which researchers say could herald a trove of ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, according to scientists. Their study, based on a review of decades of research on ...

In a surprising twist, agarbage dump in Spain, has turned into a hotspot for ancient fossils. The Can Mata landfill, which ...

Fossils found in Israel’s Nesher Ramla quarry, dated to 140,000–120,000 years ago, belonged to a new group of hominins. With traits of Neanderthals, Homo erectus, and Homo sapiens, this lineage may ...

A newly published study provides insight into the death of an elephant and the lives of the scavengers that fed on it ...

Twelve million years ago, a huge flightless predator known as a “terror bird” sprinted across tropical floodplains in what is ...

Lead poisoning isn't just a modern phenomenon: fossil teeth show signs that it affected ancient hominids, and Homo sapiens ...

In the world of geology and palaeontology, Dr. Johann Beringer, a respected physician and professor at the University of Würzburg, is well ...

From Oct 11, visitors stepping into a hall at the Science Centre Singapore will be transported more than 400 million years ...