When ancient humans interbred, new research shows that the pairings were predominantly male Neanderthals and female Homo ...

Invisible for 115,000 years, these chilling "ghost fossils" just emerged from the burning sands of the Nefud Desert to ...

This year, Pitt’s Frederick Honors College is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Allen L. Cook Spring Preserve Creek in ...

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly ...

They open up the possibility of an evolutionary link with the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils – those from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, dated to around 315,000 years ago. These discoveries help clarify ...

The first plesiosaur fossil found in Algeria provides new insights into ancient marine ecosystems and fills an important gap in the study of Cretaceous life.

Scientists at MIT have found compelling chemical evidence that Earth’s earliest animals were likely ancient sea sponges. Hidden inside rocks over 541 million years old are rare molecular “fingerprints ...

CENIEH is part of the international team publishing in Nature Ecology & Evolution a comprehensive review of two million years of fossil and ...

In the second episode of our Dead World series, digital editor Nicholas St. Fleur examines how extreme environments preserved ...

Deep in the heart of the Sahara, scientists have uncovered Spinosaurus mirabilis — a spectacular new predator crowned with a ...

Also notable was the fact that the lower jaws teeth jutted out between the upper set, making it the only Spinosaurid with this dental arrangement, which was previously thought to be unique to ...

Remains of dinosaurs, remnants from a Roman farmstead and countless artefacts from past civilisations have been unearthed by ...