A few things on this planet are old enough to make history books look recent, and that includes some living trees that have ...

The oldest protein fragments ever recovered have been extracted from fossilised teeth found in Kenya's Rift Valley, revealing ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants managed to people the rest of the world ...

Researchers were able to date the fossil of the flying reptile, a close cousin of dinosaurs, back to more than 209 million ...

Across the ages, countless civilisations, species and ecosystems have come and gone. Yet, there are still a few extraordinary ...

Former Slovak National Theatre director Matej Drlička told delegates at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival how Slovakia's government was "eroding" culture ...

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 ...

But identical twins Bernice Frank and Gloria Lipman have not only lived to 100, but they also have their own sense of what has kept them alive for so long. Now, the pair, from Raleigh, are by no means ...

A dedicated West Midlands Police officer probing scores of cold case missing person inquiries has found people living all ...

A Ramona Wildlife Center pygmy hippo that was rescued more than two decades ago broke a world record this weekend by becoming the oldest living captive pygmy hippo in recorded history, San Diego ...

Turtles are among the longest-living animals on Earth, and some species go much beyond the average lifespans. While most turtles live between 10 to 80 years, certain land tortoises and sea turtles ...