A dinosaur has been diagnosed with cancer for the first time – here’s how it was done

Researchers diagnosed bone cancer in a dinosaur — the first case ever confirmed. The...

Explorers in Antarctica found the largest soft-shelled egg ever seen

Researchers think the creature that laid the egg, which is about 66 million years old,...

Mysterious footprints reveal that ancient crocodile ancestors walked on two legs

Paleontologists originally thought the ancient footprints belonged to pterosaurs who...

Palaeontologists are unraveling the mysteries of young T. rexes. Creatures they thought were 2 species turned out to be kids and adults.

A full-grown Tyrannosaurus rex weighed up to 10 tons and was 43 feet long. Much of its...

For the first time, an hour-by-hour timeline reveals what happened after the asteroid crash that killed the dinosaurs

The dinosaurs' extinction was spurred by an asteroid that struck Earth. By studying the...

A 3.8 milion-year-old skull has been found in Africa. It changes our understanding of human history.

Australopiths were human ancestors that lived 4.2 million years ago. A new skull fossil...

Colourful fossils found in an Australian opal mine linked to a brand-new plant-eating species of dinosaur

Fostoria dhimbangunmal was a plant-eating dinosaur likely around during the...

Scientists found a billion-year-old fungus, and it could change our understanding of how life migrated to land

Scientists found billion-year-old fossil fungi in the Canadian arctic, the oldest on...