Reading like the lyrics to a popular song or poem from modern times, ancient Greek poems have prompted new insights into spoken language.

A crushed skull reveals Ptychotherates bucculentus, a rare early dinosaur reshaping what we know about evolution before a ...

A nearly complete 90-million-year-old dinosaur fossil, Alnashetri cerropoliciensis, is turning evolutionary theories upside ...

We live many times closer to the last dinosaur than the first and last dinosaur did to each other. Let that sink in for a ...

Extinct cephalopods might have been up to 19 metres in length and probably dined high up the food chain in ancient oceans.

A newly discovered prehistoric mammal may hold clues to how life survived the dinosaur-killing extinction. The tiny species, ...

A long-standing mystery in southern Africa’s fossil record is beginning to unravel. After massive lava flows 182 million ...

Mammals and dinosaurs coexisted on Earth until a catastrophic event 66 million years ago killed 75% of life on the planet.

Coincident with the rise of the dinosaurs, a large landmass filled most of the Arctic circle, potentially contributing to ...

New analyses of fossilized jaws reveal that massive, kraken-like octopuses once hunted alongside other marine predators.

The top predator prowling the seas during the age of the dinosaurs 100 million years ago may have been an octopus.