Researchers recreate the face of the real-life 'Hobbit' of Flores
VIDEO Jul 5, 2023The face of this long-lost human ancestor has been painstakingly recreated from fossil remains using computer software.
30 years on - how close are we to a real-life Jurassic Park ?
Jun 12, 2023Three decades on from the iconic movie, are we actually any closer to bringing the dinosaurs back to life ?
As many as 1.7 billion Tyrannosaurus rexes once roamed the Earth
May 18, 2023This figure might sound a lot, but it is actually quite a bit smaller than previous estimates had suggested.
Mystery of the Tully monster may have finally been solved
Apr 17, 2023The long-running mystery of whether or not this peculiar prehistoric creature was a vertebrate may finally have an answer.
Ancient bear found preserved in permafrost reveals its secrets
VIDEO Mar 17, 2023Scientists have been studying an incredibly well-preserved bear that was found in the Siberian permafrost.
Ancient human skull found in China could belong to Homo erectus
Dec 3, 2022Dating back one million years, the remarkably intact skull has been hailed as an important find by palaeoanthropologists.
T.rex may have been nearly twice the size, new study suggests
Nov 17, 2022The iconic predatory dinosaur may have been as much as 70% larger than fossil discoveries suggest.
Mystery of weird creature dubbed 'alien goldfish' may have been solved
Sep 21, 2022For decades, fossil experts have been perplexed by a totally bizarre prehistoric creature.
Skeleton of earliest known amputee discovered in Borneo
Sep 8, 2022The 31,000-year-old skeleton is believed to be the earliest known evidence of surgical intervention.
Scientists find evidence of a second dinosaur-killing asteroid
Aug 27, 2022It looks as though it might not have been one asteroid strike that killed off the dinosaurs, but two.
Weird creature with no anus was not earliest human ancestor
Aug 17, 2022Scientists have determined that this very strange 500 million-year-old creature was not actually related to humans.
Loch Ness Monster 'plausible' after fossil discovery
Jul 27, 2022The discovery that some plesiosaurs could have lived in freshwater has re-ignited the debate on Nessie.
New evidence of early campfires dates back 1 million years
Jun 20, 2022Scientists have used an artificial intelligence to analyze evidence that early humans were making fire 1 million years ago.
Prehistoric 'Swiss Army knife' found across Africa
Jun 13, 2022A set of cutting and skinning tools is being hailed as evidence that our ancestors shared knowledge.
'Dragon of death' pterosaur discovered in Argentina
May 24, 2022A new type of flying reptile from the age of the dinosaurs has been unearthed in the Andes mountains.
Is an ancient human ancestor hiding in Indonesia ?
Apr 28, 2022A controversial new book claims that the hobbit-like Homo floresiensis may not have actually gone extinct.
Well preserved dinosaur leg may be from the actual day of the asteroid strike
Apr 15, 2022Palaeontologists believe that they may have found one of the victims of the extinction event that ended the dinosaurs.
Shards of dinosaur-killing asteroid found preserved in amber
Apr 9, 2022Palaeontologists have discovered fragments of the asteroid that brought about the demise of the dinosaurs.
Giant camels lived alongside humans up until 27,000 years ago
Mar 25, 2022New research has indicated that our ancestors lived alongside these gargantuan mammals until relatively recently.
Many prehistoric cave paintings were made by children
Mar 17, 2022New research has suggested that the process of creating cave paintings may have been a family affair.
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