Scientists in western India have uncovered fossil remains of a gargantuan prehistoric snake that may have been one of the ...

There was a time when iguanas were admired as novelties in Florida, roaming unmolested and being fed like stray cats. No ...

Travelling to prehistoric sites offers a rare chance to stand where ancient humans once lived, painted, built and worshipped thousands, even tens of thousands, of years ago. Long before written ...

A new pterosaur species was recently discovered in the vomit of a dino. But that's just the start of revelations from prehistoric excretions. Millions of years ago, a predator like spinosaurus (shown ...

A giant ocean predator that terrorised the seas during the time of the dinosaurs may have also hunted in rivers, a tooth fossil discovered in North Dakota suggests. The extinct lizard-like reptile ...

A suckermouthed minnow, Supradiscus varidiscus, was initially shelved by Museum ichthyologists after it was collected 25 years ago. But the specimen, which was found in the highlands of Vietnam, was ...

People take part in the winter solstice celebrations during sunrise at the Stonehenge prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire ...

The Mailbox is fed up with Chelsea's 'incompetent morons', who 'desperately need' to appoint alternatives to Liam ...

Carved into the chalk of a hillside in southern England, the Uffington White Horse is utterly unique. Stretching 360 feet from head to tail, it is the only prehistoric geoglyph—a large-scale design ...

Analyses of fossils and ancient genomics reveal how early human populations bred less wolf-like companions, and how they might have traded them around the world. Model organisms are key to ...

The oldest bat skeletons in the world have been identified as a new species, helping scientists fill in the spotty fossil record of these flying mammals and providing new clues about how they evolved.