Scientists found deformed head shapes in fossilized humans show their infants were probably just as helpless as babies born today.

A trackway in northern Kenya preserves a "snapshot" of how individuals of an ancient hominin species interacted with one another.

Scientists say the "unique" fossil find shows they were in fact blooming 10 million years before dinosaurs were wiped out.

The "unique" fossil find shows they were in fact blooming 10 million years before dinosaurs were wiped out.

The early four-legged animals, the tetrapods, were the forebears of today’s mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians.

Scientists say the buffalo-like species grew up to weigh up to half a ton.

Three previously unknown species of rodent-like mammals that once scurried alongside dinosaurs in what is now northern Alaska have been identified.

In total, only around 11 specimens of this kind have ever been recorded.

The "enormous" creatures were active carnivores who routinely crushed hard shells and bones with their powerful bites.

Its skull, broad and triangular in shape, had a pointed beak resembling that of parrots.