These lost lands used to be a part of what is called “Sundaland” by the researchers.Recently discovered fossils have found bones from an unknown group of Homo erectus, an extinct human ...

THE bones of a long-extinct human ancestor have been dredged ... These hominins were targeting cow-like bovids in their prime, according to researchers, which the Indonesian Homo erectus isn ...

Archaeologists have recovered 140,000-year-old Homo erectus bones from an extinct human species on ... was hunting for large game such as cow-like bovids, a strategy which is more commonly ...

Bones from an extinct human ancestor have been recovered from the seafloor ... The remains also suggested that these hominins were selectively targeting cow-like bovids in their prime, which ...

Researchers have recovered Homo erectus bones from the seafloor, which points to an unknown hominin population hunting on ...

Paleontologists recently discovered a 506-million-year-old "moth-like" predator that lurked in prehistoric Canada. In a press release from the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), officials identified the ...

Previously only known from fossil records, the mountain pygmy-possum was thought to be extinct until 1966 when one was spotted in a ski lodge at Mount Hotham in Victoria. The mountain pygmy possum ...

The now-extinct creature lived during the Triassic period and has been identified as part of the Herrerasauria family, known to be among the earliest carnivorous dinosaurs. The small but mighty beast ...

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These massive bovids, weighing up to 900 pounds (400 kg), possess a two-layer insulation system that stands among the most effective in the animal kingdom. Their outer coat consists of long, coarse ...