Australia’s past is older, wilder, and stranger than you can imagine. From cyanobacteria billions of years ago to thunderous ...

Hidden beneath farmland in the central tablelands of New South Wales lies one of Australia's most extraordinary fossil ...

Described as the "most important piece of prehistoric art to be found in Britain in the last 100 years", an elaborately decorated 5,000-year-old chalk cylinder, buried with three child skeletons in ...

A recon unit ventures into an isolated jungle valley in Vietnam to find themselves fighting against prehistoric dinosaurs.

The Isle of Skye holds the key to ancient species. From the Elgol dinosaur to the Krusatodon or the world’s largest pterosaur fossil from the Jurassic period, fossils found here have shaped our ...

A new discovery by our team, published in the Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, shows the start of this process dates back more ...

If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years. While the volcano is ...

Fossils unearthed along Victoria’s Surf Coast have led to the discovery of an ancient whale species with special adaptations for hunting, including large eyes and sharp teeth, shedding light on early ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Long before whales were majestic, gentle giants, some of their prehistoric ancestors were tiny, weird and feral. A chance discovery of a 25 million-year-old fossil on an ...

Aug. 13 (UPI) --Prehistoric fossils have led to the discovery of an ancient whale species off the coast of Australia. Scientists said the species, Janjucetus dullardi, is one of the earliest cousins ...