Scientists have unearthed the fossil remains of a strange species of snake with four tiny limbs.
Scientists have discovered a species of bat that was three times the size of any that are alive today.
A new study has suggested that the prehistoric reptiles were more likely to be warm-blooded like mammals.
Prehistoric stone tools predating the human genus have been unearthed in a dried-up riverbed in Kenya.
A 100 million-year-old predatory cockroach has been found perfectly preserved in a piece of amber.
A new species of lizard that grew to the size of a car has been identified from fossils in Portugal.
The world famous naturalist described the creature as being 'the strangest animal ever discovered.'
A new theory has proposed that the prehistoric stone circle may have supported a large wooden altar.
The desert's Messak Settafet escarpment contains up to 75 prehistoric tools per square meter.
Palaeontologists have uncovered the fossil remains of an enormous 480 million-year-old lobster.
The fossil of a previously unknown species of prehistoric aquatic reptile has been found at a museum.
The world's largest ever rodent was so big that it used its front teeth like tusks to defend itself.
The fossilized remains of a large dolphin-like creature have been found on the Isle of Skye.
An ancient encampment discovered near the prehistoric monument could rewrite British history.
Scientists have revealed new details about our prehistoric ancestors thanks to a fossil thighbone.
The extinct sthenurine kangaroo weighed a quarter of a ton and looked a bit like a giant bipedal rabbit.
The meat-eating behemoth is believed to have stalked the prehistoric waterways of North Africa.
The enormous prehistoric reptile was so massive that it weighed the same as seven Tyrannosaurus rex.
Scientists have found the fossil remains of several dozen members of a previously unknown species.
Burrowing worms may have had a profound impact on the development of life over 500 million years ago.