What's it like to be bitten by a dinosaur?

Scientists examining the lives of killer marine dinosaurs are using alligators to work out the power in the prehistoric animals' jaws. Crocodiles and alligators who have roamed the earth for millions of years are said to have anatomically similar jaws to the extinct kronosaurus, a 30 ft beast weighing....Read More...

Dinosaurs had earliest feathers

Every human language evolved from 'single prehistoric African mother tongue

Early Hominid First Walked On Two Legs In The Woods

Oldest dinosaur nesting site ever found contains hundreds of 190-million-year-old eggs

A 190-million-year-old dinosaur nursery with 340 eggs has been discovered, providing an insight into the animals' behaviour from the oldest nesting site ever found. The excavation site in South Africa belonged to the prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus and predates other nesting sites by 100 million years, according to researchers.....Read More...

World's Oldest Dinosaur Embryos Found

How a hobbit is rewriting the history of the human race

Museum staff discover bird sized beetle was shot out of the sky by Victorian insect collector.

Leopard-sized predator that roamed the Earth BEFORE the dinosaurs is found using Google maps

A fearsome fanged reptile that roamed the Earth about 265 million years ago - before the age of the dinosaurs - has been unearthed in southern Brazil by scientists. The skull of the predator was dug up from a farm in the pampas plains of Rio Grande do....Read More...

How much Have We Evolved in the Last 200 Million Years?

Cavemen, Cave Bears Battled Over Turf

Walking Breakthrough with Dinosaurs.

Darwin's lost fossils

For 160 years they lay forgotten in a dusty cabinet, lost to science because they had been hastily filed away. Now a treasure trove of fossils collected by the young Charles Darwin has been discovered by chance. They were collected in the 1830s in South America during his....Read More...

New evidence that first humans walked upright 'because it was so hot'

Humans' early arrival in Britain

Cat-like crocodile roamed earth with the dinosaurs

New dinosaur species found in Museum Vaults

Credit: Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

Researchers have discovered what they say are the remains of a new horned dinosaur species which has been lying in the vaults of a British museum for nearly a century.

The remains of Spinops sternbergorum, which belongs to the same family....Read More...

Eve – the mother of all humans, lived 200,000 years ago

Ancient Human Ancestors Faced Fearsome Horned Crocodile

Siberians share DNA with extinct human species

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

The enormous bones of what is believed to be the biggest dinosaur in the U.S. have been unveiled by university researchers. A research paper produced jointly by the Museum of Rockies in Montana State and the State Museum of Pennsylvania describes two gigantic vertebrae and a femur that the....Read More...

Unique Marsupial Fossils Found In Australia

Scientists uncover entire Ice Age ecosystem

20-million-year-old ape skull unearthed in Uganda

World's 'oldest beds' found

Humans were making themselves comfy on plant mattresses as long as 77,000 years ago, a study has found - and our ancestors were surprisingly clever at getting a good night's sleep. Scientists discovered early evidence of bedding made from compacted stems and leaves at a rock shelter in South....Read More...

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

'Giraffe of the Mesozoic' Dinosaur Unearthed in China

T.rex 'little cousin' discovered

Woolly mammoth to be brought back to life

Scientists believe it may be possible to clone a woolly mammoth within five years after finding well-preserved bone marrow in a thigh bone recovered from permafrost soil in Siberia.

Teams from Russia's Sakha Republic's mammoth museum and Japan's Kinki University will launch fully-fledged joint research next year aiming....Read More...

Paleothermometer could tell if dinosaurs warm, cold-blooded

Neanderthals and Humans Bred Twice

Huge New Dinosaur Was Cousin of T. rex

"Gorgeous" Dinosaur Nest Found Full of Babies

Credit: Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar, Mongolian Academy of Sciences

A nest full of fossilized dinosaur babies has been discovered in Mongolia, and the find has paleontologists reexamining styles of parental care among the ancient reptiles.

The approximately 75-million-year-old nest shows 15 juvenile....Read More...

Oldest Land-Walker Tracks Found--Pushes Back Evolution

Leopard-sized predator that roamed the Earth BEFORE the dinosaurs is found using Google maps

Walking Breakthrough with Dinosaurs.

Oil sands digger uncovers dinosaur

A heavy equipment operator unearthed what appears to be a nearly complete plesiosaur while digging in Canada's oil sands, Syncrude announced Thursday. The fossil was discovered on November 14 and is now being examined by Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology scientists who aim to have it removed by the....Read More...

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Dinosaurs had earliest feathers