Researchers used three different methods to date the site, challenging the preexisting notion of the site being between 1. 2 ...

A remarkable discovery in Germany has uncovered fossilized vomit, or regurgitalite, dating back 290 million years, older than ...

In 2008, genetic research suggested that Ötzi’s maternal lineage was extinct. His mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) carried a rare signature never observed in any living person, leading researchers to ...

Also notable was the fact that the lower jaws teeth jutted out between the upper set, making it the only Spinosaurid with this dental arrangement, which was previously thought to be unique to ...

A team of 20 paleontologists has announced the discovery of a new dinosaur species, Spinosaurus mirabilis, in a remote region ...

Recent studies challenge long-standing beliefs about vertebrate vision with the discovery of a novel visual system in deep-sea fish, while a groundbreaking fossil find in Niger reveals a remarkable ...

We don’t give prehistoric people enough credit. These remarkable folks learned to walk upright, discovered fire, and invented the wheel. Sadly, they made that wheel out of wood, accidentally set it on ...

A 125-million-year-old dinosaur just rewrote what we thought we knew about prehistoric life. Scientists in China have uncovered an exceptionally preserved juvenile iguanodontian with fossilized skin ...

The oldest human remains ever found in Northern Britain have been identified as a young female three years after being discovered in a Cumbrian cave. Excavated at Heaning Wood Bone Cave in Cumbria's ...

This discovery pushed us further back in time than ever before. While uncovering prehistoric relics our oldest find to date we encountered a rattlesnake in the same area. A reminder that exploring ...

At least 67,800 years ago, someone placed their hand on the wall inside a limestone cave and used a reddish-brown pigment to trace the outline of a handprint. But the unknown artist didn’t stop there: ...