The team named the new pterosaur species Eotephradactylus mcintireae. The generic name means ‘ash-winged dawn goddess’ and references the site’s volcanic ash and the animals’ position near the base of ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.

When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

Scientists have determined that a giant skull from an ancient human relative named the "Dragon Man" is actually Denisovan.

A green anaconda can swallow a human. It’s one of the largest and most powerful snakes in the world who is capable of growing over 6 meters long and weighing several hundred kilograms. Thanks to ...

Experts believe the bones were excavated by a volunteer on an archaeological dig in 1965. It was common practice to allow helpers on projects to keep pieces from their finds, even human remains.

At New Mexico's White Sands, researchers have uncovered human footprints dated to between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago, as well as similar-aged tracks of giant mammals.

Thaís Pansani examines the marks humans left on megafauna bones to determine when people arrived in South America and how they interacted with giant mammals Chihiro Kai 14,000 years ago, an early ...

A MONSTROUS one-tonne crocodile that ate a six-year-old girl was discovered with her human teeth and bones inside its belly. Cecelia Julan Intik was swimming at Sungai Tatau, Malaysia when she was … ...

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Well-preserved bones suggest human hunter-gatherers had settled in the Americas some 5,000 years before previously thought.