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...

This 'bizarre-looking, buck-toothed' dinosaur that could fit in your palm flew around the Jurassic skies like a bat

Scientists discovered a 163-million-year old dinosaur in China that had leathery wings...

Scientists may have discovered a new human species. It lived on a tiny island in the Philippines at the same time as Homo sapiens.

Anthropologists may have discovered a new human relative named Homo luzonensis on the...

Discovered: An ancient whale that had four legs and could walk on land

Paleontologists discovered an ancient whale off the coast of Peru that had four legs and...