Natural History Museum scientists have described and named 190 new species to science in 2024 The list includes a snake named ...

In 1912 Charles Dawson, an amateur archaeologist claimed to have discovered the ‘missing link’ between ape and man. He had found part of a human-like skull in Pleistocene gravel beds near Piltdown ...

Our species mated with the Neanderthals much later than thought. New research reveals that Neanderthal genes entered our own DNA within the past 50,000 years, rewriting the story of how Homo sapiens ...

Tyrannosaurs once roamed what is now the southern coast of England. Fossil teeth uncovered in East Sussex have provided the first evidence of these dinosaurs in this region from the Early Cretaceous ...

A new species of ancient reptile has been named after spending more than 200 million years buried in the ground. Threordatoth chasmatos was one of the last survivors of the procolophonids, a group of ...

The fossilised lizard was found in Cromhall Quarry, southwest England Scientists have described a new species of procolophonid reptile The fossilised lizard was found in Cromhall Quarry, southwest ...

Study argues that by the time of H. sapiens expansion, differentiation between the two species had occurred to the point where they were distinguishable species. Advocating the former, Chris Stringer ...

Over 230 million years ago, long-necked plesiosaurs and dolphin-shaped ichthyosaurs dominated the oceans, from open water to the shallow coasts. But within 30 million years, many of these marine ...

We know that our own ancestors interbred with Neanderthals, but evidence suggests that we were still distinct species. By using this as a case study, researchers have probed what it means to be a ...

The grave of a young man in Morocco is providing astonishing insights into human culture 15,000 years ago. Buried alongside ...

Between May and June 2020, over 300 elephants suddenly died in northwestern Botswana. New research lays the blame for these deaths on a toxic algal bloom exacerbated by climate change. Climate ...