They have both ancient and modern traits – a finding that could challenge ‘out of Africa’ theory of human evolution, ...

Spiders, crabs, and other arthropods evolved from a group of animals that underwent a burst of diversity around 500 million ...

Scientists at Queensland Museum have uncovered a 400-million-year-old vertebrate fossil, which could be the smallest of its ...

Queensland Museum scientists have described a 400-million-year-old fossil, which is possibly the smallest vertebrate fossil ...

Recent developments in science include a more precise timeline of Homo sapiens' interbreeding with Neanderthals, insights ...

Scientists have discovered 30 dinosaur fossils in Hong Kong on Port Island, a remote site off the northern coast.

Australia's forest ecosystems, renowned for their extraordinary diversity of rare plants and animals, also play a vital role ...

Newly discovered insect fossils are so small they can barely be seen by the human eye but have been preserved in an ...

Fossils of 600-million-year-old "tiny humanoids" were discovered in Antarctica. A story perpetuated in some social media ...

University of Otago researchers unearthed these rare fossils in Miocene-era crater lake sediments at Hindon Maar near Dunedin ...

Ancient fossils which date back to a period between 39,800 and 54,600 years ago offer a fascinating insight into the habits ...