Did pandas once roam Europe?

An entirely new species of bear related to giant pandas has been found - in Spain. The bear would have had a dark coat with white spots in its chest, around its eyes - and would have been smaller than any bear species today. The bear was identified....Read More...

Fossil of ancient amphibian named after FedEx

Prehistoric man 'used crude sat nav'

Britain's oldest dinosaur to be excavated from rocky tomb

Fossil shows off that even the dinosaurs suffered arthritis 150 million years ago

Dinosaurs suffered painful arthritis in their huge joints, scientists revealed for the first time today. Researchers found signs of a degenerative condition similar to human arthritis in the jaw of a pliosaur - an ancient sea reptile that lived 150 million years ago. The discovery marks the first time....Read More...

Ancient Human Ancestors Faced Fearsome Horned Crocodile

Perfectly preserved T-Rex tooth discovered buried in farmer's field

Dinosaurs to show their true colours at last

Smallest mammoths found on Crete

The smallest mammoth ever known to have existed roamed the island of Crete millions of years ago, researchers say. Adults were roughly the size of a modern baby elephant, standing over a metre tall at the shoulders. Remains were discovered more than a century ago, but scientists had debated....Read More...

Jurassic egg hoard in India 'could hold clues to dinosaur extinction mystery'

Dinosaurs 'wiped out by meteor shower lasting thousands of years'

Walking Breakthrough with Dinosaurs.

Fossils of ancient 'super-koala' found

Australia's treetops were home 15 million years ago to sheep-sized, 150-pound relatives of modern day wombats that looked much like koalas, scientists say. Karen Black from the University of New South Wales said the creatures, knows as Nimbadons, were climbers living in rainforest canopy.

Nimbadon was a highly capable,....Read More...

Archaeologists unveil bones of 'biggest' dinosaur in U.S.

Woolly mammoth with 'strawberry-blonde hair' discovered

Expedition to Seek Living Dinosaurs in Africa

Mystery of Cincinatti Sea Beast Deepens

Is it animal, vegetable or mineral -- or something else entirely? The collective brainpower of several dozen scientists was unable to unravel the mystery of a strange beast nearly half a billion years old, tentatively nicknamed “Godzillus.”

Ron Fine, an amateur paleontologist from Dayton, Ohio, hoped the supersmart....Read More...

Earth hit by mass extinctions 'every 27m years'

Australia Discovers New Dinosaur

Giant predatory shark fossil unearthed in Kansas

Oetzi the Iceman's blood is world's oldest

Researchers studying Oetzi, a 5,300-year-old body found frozen in the Italian Alps in 1991, have found red blood cells around his wounds. Blood cells tend to degrade quickly, and earlier scans for blood within Oetzi's body turned up nothing. Now a study in the Journal of the Royal Society....Read More...

What Happened to the Hominids Who Were Smarter Than Us?

1.9 million-year-old fossil goes on show in Canberra

Neanderthal Males Had 'Popeye'-Like Arms

World's Largest 'Fossil Forest' Found In US

Scientists have found a 300-million-year-old subterranean 'fossil forest' in the US, thought to be more than 50 times bigger than anything of its kind previously discovered. Researchers uncovered the forest, which is believed to extend for up to 100 miles, encased in shale above coal seams in the state....Read More...

Siberian Ice Age Baby Mammoth Discovered

Bird-like dinosaur was 'venomous'

Caveman too went to the movies

Expedition to Seek Living Dinosaurs in Africa

A young Missouri man has turned to the Internet in search of investors for his expedition into the remote jungles of Africa seeking to document undiscovered flora and fauna. That is not so unusual, but one of the creatures he hopes to find is: a living dinosaur.Read More...

Bird-like dinosaur was 'venomous'

Giant pliosaur fossil gets a CT scan

Colossal sea monster unearthed that would have 'eaten T Rex for breakfast'

Workmen Find World's Biggest Dinosaur Eggs

A construction crew in Russia's Chechnya may have uncovered an unusual find - a stash of giant dinosaur eggs. They were blasting through a hillside in a remote area of the Caucasus mountains, aiming to build a road near the volatile region's border with Georgia at the time. A team of....Read More...

Bone Find May Change Human History

Cat-like crocodile roamed earth with the dinosaurs

'Dinosaurs' 10 million years older than previously thought

T. rex relative is biggest ever feathered animal

A newly described relative of Tyrannosaurus rex is the largest known feathered animal - living or extinct. The feathered meat-eating dinosaur lived about 125 million years ago and is estimated to have weighed a whopping 1,400kg as an adult. The new species, known as Yutyrannus, has been identified from....Read More...

India Asteroid Killed Dinosaurs, Made Largest Crater?

New dinosaur discovery solves evolutionary bird puzzle

Mammoths contributed to global warming with methane emissions