For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai— an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now ...

A tiny breadcrumb entombed thousands of years ago alongside an ancient Egyptian’s mummified remains has been discovered in Leeds.

Archaeologists used to think that the Clovis people were the first inhabitants of the Americas some 13,500 years ago. The ...

Discover the remarkable bird fossil from Antarctica that is rewriting the story of bird evolution. Learn how this 69-million-year-old bird challenges previous theories.

The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...

Prehistoric times were pretty strange, to put it lightly, and the same could be said of the species from that period. Here ...

A fossilised bird skull found in Antarctica reveals evolutionary links between Vegavis iaai and modern waterfowl species.

New research shows that ancient humans, Australopithecus, had a plant-based diet, challenging long-held meat-eating theories.

In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone ...

Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years and recent research on fossilized shark teeth has led to the ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

For the first time, scientists have completed an in-depth analysis of fossilized soft tissues from a plesiosaur ...