Archaeologists have discovered the remains of at least five woolly mammoths at a site in Austria. The remains suggest that ...

Anatolia, the western part of modern-day Turkey that sits at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, is a fossil-rich ...

Scientists have discovered the fossilized remains of a new fish species called Ferruaspis brocksi, which lived 15 million ...

Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

In a wind-swept stretch of Morocco’s Middle Atlas Mountains, paleontologists digging through Jurassic-era stone have ...

A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...

Five 'mass extinctions' have decimated our planet since it was formed - now scientists claim the answers to two could be ...

Zavier, 14, Tauranga, New Zealand. Great question Zavier, and one that palaeontologists (scientists who study fossil animals ...