Natural History Museum scientists have described and named 190 new species to science in 2024 The list includes a snake named ...

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In the search for life on Mars, scientists have discovered more about the planet’s explosive past. The future Mars rover ...

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Papers published in the journals Nature and Science have used the bones to narrow down when Neanderthals and H. sapiens ...

Meet your ancient relatives, trace the origins and evolution of our species, and explore what makes us human. Embark on a seven-million-year journey, from the first hominins to the last surviving ...

Tyrannosaurs once roamed what is now the southern coast of England. Fossil teeth uncovered in East Sussex have provided the first evidence of these dinosaurs in this region from the Early Cretaceous ...

A new species of ancient reptile has been named after spending more than 200 million years buried in the ground. Threordatoth chasmatos was one of the last survivors of the procolophonids, a group of ...

The fossilised lizard was found in Cromhall Quarry, southwest England Scientists have described a new species of procolophonid reptile The fossilised lizard was found in Cromhall Quarry, southwest ...

Over 230 million years ago, long-necked plesiosaurs and dolphin-shaped ichthyosaurs dominated the oceans, from open water to the shallow coasts. But within 30 million years, many of these marine ...

Study argues that by the time of H. sapiens expansion, differentiation between the two species had occurred to the point where they were distinguishable species. Advocating the former, Chris Stringer ...

We know that our own ancestors interbred with Neanderthals, but evidence suggests that we were still distinct species. By using this as a case study, researchers have probed what it means to be a ...