A 259-million-year-old fossil skull of Yinshanosaurus angustus has been found, filling a key evolutionary gap in ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

“Ancient DNA has produced a revolution in our understanding of recent human origins,” said Daniel Green, field program ...

When large marine animals like whales die, they sink down to the seabed. Once their flesh has been stripped away by ...

Some ancient Greek and Roman philosophers supported vegetarianism. Killing animals for pleasure causes people to develop the ...

Scientists have uncovered DNA from 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric humans, including the oldest known evidence of plague ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the earliest known multifunctional tool made from cave lion bone, shedding new light on ...

The famed Lord of the Rings director has donated his money and his bones to make a legend come to life with Colossal ...

Something strange happens to water as it moves through the stems of horsetail plants – and this unique process provides ...

Long before the first dinosaur hatched, Earth's ancient life was already thriving. There were bizarre sea creatures and lumbering plant-eaters that ruled prehistoric landscapes for hundreds of ...

From tail-wagging agents of battle to divine deities, ancient Mesopotamia’s civilisations saw dogs as more than just pets.

When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.