The dog has been man’s best friend since the Stone Age – and has followed its owners around the world.…
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Scientists have unearthed fossils of a feathered dinosaur in northwestern New Mexico in the United States that was a quick…
An archeological excavation of a coastal site in Portugal reveals that Neanderthals dined on a menu of seafood with a…
A gigantic lake is not the first thing to think about when we hear the word Sahara. But about 10,000…
Russian scientists discovered the body of a canine near Yakutsk, in eastern Siberia. Preserved by permafrost, the specimen’s nose, fur,…
Orangutans (genus Pongo) are the closest living relatives of Gigantopithecus blacki, the biggest primate that ever walked the Earth, according…
Hyenas may have lived and hunted in the barren arctic tundra in northwestern Canada during the last ice age, according…
We now know that some dinosaurs – previously considered scaly and reptilian – were actually wearing feathers. But a newly…
A new species of giant mammal has been identified after researchers investigated bones that had been kept for decades in…
The remains of a 180 million-year-old ichthyosaur (literally ‘fish-lizard’) have been analyzed, and the fossil is so well-preserved that its…
An extinct giant rhinoceros, sometimes described as a “Siberian unicorn,” lived on the planet much longer than scientists previously thought,…
A toothless whale fossil without signs of baleen could help explain how the whale filtration system evolved. Researchers have…
The discovery of an enormous prehistoric animal, which lived during the Triassic period 200 million years ago, indicates early dinosaurs…
Scientists believe Thylacoleo carnifex was probably a victim of the drying out of Australia, which began about 350,000 years…
Scientists have discovered an ancient fossil of the earliest animal on geological record. Called “Dickinsoni”, this strange oval creature had rib-like segments running along its body that lived on Earth 558 million years ago. According to a new paper published last week in Science, researchers argue that an iconic fossil from this time period is