Researchers discovered evidence of enormous Kraken-like creatures who hunted in the seas some 100 million years ago, ...

When the climate cooled, the population of Neanderthals shrank. Most that lived between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago were ...

True extinction is final, a point of no return where a species disappears forever. And sadly, species go extinct all the time ...

A remarkably preserved, mummified reptile from 289 million years ago is rewriting what we know about how animals first ...

A fossil fish skull, Macropoma gombessae, that sat unnoticed in a London museum for nearly 140 years has now changed fish ...

A fossil from Egypt hints we may have been looking in the wrong place for ape origins. A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, ...

A 150-year-old fossil at London’s Natural History Museum has revealed a new species of coelacanth, filling a critical gap in ...

Learn how new technology revealed a long-forgotten museum specimen to be a missing link in coelacanth evolution.

A new species of coelacanth has been identified from a 150-year-old fossil housed at London's Natural History Museum. Former ...

A new species of coelacanth has been identified from a 150-year-old fossil housed at London's Natural History Museum.Former ...

A new species of coelacanth has been identified from a 150-year-old fossil housed at London’s Natural History Museum.

A small fossil snake may hold outsized clues about snake evolution, behavior, and an ancient ecosystem that looked nothing ...