1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (514+ words) An analysis of ancient and modern DNA suggests the extent of convergent evolution in different peoples around the world is even greater than we thought The advent of farming led to new evolutionary pressures on humans A study combining the…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (1064+ words) Their species name is well known, but until recently we've understood very little for certain about Homo habilis. Columnist Michael Marshall reveals what new fossils are telling us about the hominins that have been considered the first humans Homo habilis…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago  (667+ words) A single femur found in Bulgaria appears to represent an ape or early hominin that walked on two legs before any known African hominin, but the evidence is far from conclusive Illustration of Graecopithecus freybergi, an ape that lived 7.2 million…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (520+ words) Sonselasuchus cedrus, discovered in fossils from Arizona, was a crocodile relative from the Triassic period that grew into an ostrich-like adult Artist's reconstruction of Sonselasuchus cedrus in its environment, 215 million years ago An early relative of crocodiles spent its juvenile…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago  (330+ words) The end-Permian extinction 252 million years ago wiped out over 80 per cent of marine species, but many ecosystems still had complex food webs despite the losses Artwork of a Hybodus shark, a predator that evolved in the late Permian and survived…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1533+ words) 15 days from 22 August 2026 22 August 2026 - 15 days for "7,950 per person August 2027 - Register for 2027 and we will contact when confirmed details including dates and prices are available. Embark on an exhilarating and one-of-a-kind expedition to uncover dinosaur remains in the vast wilderness of…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (815+ words) Spinosaurs have sometimes been portrayed as swimmers or divers, but a new species of these dinosaurs bolsters the idea that they were more like gigantic herons The lifestyle of spinosaurs has been a contentious topic among palaeontologists, due to the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (831+ words) A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after Earth's first mass extinction event An artist's illustration of life in Earth's oceans at the time of the Huayuan biotaDinghua…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (620+ words) Long thought to have walked bipedally, like us, Australia's extinct giant kangaroos have features that indicate they could also have bounced Procoptodon goliah was 2 metres tall, but it might have hopped Even the giant kangaroos that roamed Australia thousands of…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (656+ words) A fossil discovery in northern Ethiopia expands the known range of Paranthropus, a genus of strong-jawed hominins that lived around 2 million years ago, and suggests they lived in a range of habitats Illustration of Paranthropus hominins, which lived between 2.7 and…...