Levels of molybdenum in soil show that hydrogen sulfide gas wiped out nearly half of all marine life 530 million years ago.

At first glance, this mammal looks like a horse gone terribly wrong. But, in reality, Chalicotherium is far from a botched ...

In London, the Natural History Museum released its 2025 list of newly described species, formally adding 262 plants and ...

For decades, scientists have puzzled over a significant gap in the fossil record of Earth's earliest animals, with genetic ...

This week in science: fossilized 'mammoth' bones found to be from a completely different animal; NASA returns Space Station ...

Evidence that modern humans and an older hominin species used the same cave, probably during overlapping periods, has been ...

A new study reveals that the Tyrannosaurus rex took up to 40 years to fully grow.

Hallucigenia was such an odd animal that palaeontologists reconstructed it upside-down when they first analysed its fossils - ...

On the vast expanse of the Siberian steppe 14,000 years ago, a 2-month-old wolf pup gobbled down some woolly rhinoceros flesh. Moments later, its underground den collapsed, killing ...

Museum scientists have identified and described an extinct rhinoceros species from Canada’s High Arctic. Researchers at the ...

For 75 years, a pair of fossils in the collection of an Alaska museum was believed to have come from a mammoth. Not so, says ...

How paleontologists interpret the fossil record is about to change, as new research challenges our understanding of bone ...