According to a statement released by the University of Tübingen, an international team of researchers who evaluated a fossil femur unearthed at the site of Azmaka in southern Bulgaria suggests that it ...

Paleontologists have often determined how old a dinosaur was by counting the growth rings in its bones. Just like with trees, ...

For years, we suspected that Alvarezsaurids underwent a rare process of evolutionary miniaturization directly coupled to a ...

The caution kept the mammoth extinction story intact, but it turned the bones into a new kind of mystery. A run of ...

Until recently, this lineage was thought to exist only in eastern Australia. But on the huge, biologically diverse island of New Guinea, there was no sign of its existence. Scientists presumed it had ...

A newly described Patagonian fossil reveals the evolutionary origins and global spread of the tiny alvarezsaur dinosaurs.

Scientists analyze fossils and vocal tract models to reconstruct what the languages of prehistoric humans may have sounded like.

New research suggests that large land predators were already hunting big plant-eating animals more than 280 million years ago, much earlier than scientists once thought. Fossil evidence from Texas ...

The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like?

The tiny remnant belongs to Purgatorius, one of the earliest known relatives of all primates, including humans, which first ...

We have always imagined dinosaurs as colossal beasts thundering across ancient landscapes, but ecosystems are about balance, ...

new study reveals that large predators were already hunting big plant-eating animals more than 280 million years ago, ...