Researchers mapped the mammoth family tree by extracting dna from fossils. Also, scientists found some sessile animals living ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

Early hominins in Europe were creating tools from raw materials hundreds of thousands of years before Homo sapiens arrived ...

A rare fossil discovery in Ethiopia has pushed the known range of Paranthropus hundreds of miles farther north than ever before. The 2.6-million-year-old jaw suggests this ancient relative of humans ...

Along a quiet stretch of coastline in eastern England, a short window of low tide revealed something rarely seen in Europe.

In the shadow of a coal mine in southern Greece, archaeologists discovered the oldest known handheld wooden tools ever found.

The latest installment in the blockbuster film franchise introduced audiences to a cute and tiny herbivore known as an ...

The heatwave in Melbourne and Adelaide this week is likely to become the norm. We should prepare now ...

A 2.6-million-year-old hominin species fossil remains has been found in Ethiopia’s Afar region, paleoanthropologists in the University of Chicago have disclosed.

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Steve Curwood ...

In the first of a new series, curator Dr Neil Adams shares the stories and science of the fossil mammal collection.

The earliest hominins in Europe shared their environment with large mammals and elephants were some of the largest animals ...