A fossil discovery in New Zealand reveals a giant penguin ancestor species that thrived in warm seas three million years ago.

Researchers have described a whole new family of extinct crocodyliforms based on the fossilized remains of a single teenage ...

Nicknamed Elton and formally named Thikarisuchus xenodentes, the fossil reveals a predator no longer than two feet, with a ...

The shared ancestor of our species, the Neanderthals and the Denisovans may be far older than we thought – which could ...

A construction project at San Pedro High School in Los Angeles revealed nearly 9-million-year-old sea creature fossils buried ...

The newly-discovered penguin species went extinct when the ice age hit, but researchers don't think the cold was to blame for their demise.

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now ...

This is because the new analysis of the craniums also puts the Denisovans as the most closely related extinct human species ...

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that ...

A new species of "apex predator" dinosaur has been uncovered after palaeontologists recovered a fossil which showed the bones of a crocodile lodged in its jaws. Researchers have said the discovery in ...

A study published in the journal Science on Friday revealed that a reanalysis of an ancient human skull fossil, unearthed in Hubei province and dating back more than 1 million years, may rewrite the ...

Scientists have discovered a new dinosaur from Argentina with powerful claws, feasting on an ancient crocodile bone. The new find was ...