Last Updated: Sunday, June 2, 2013, 14:21
Scientists analysing fossil records have discovered a new three-horned dinosaur, dating back 66 to 80 million years, that sported a hoodie-like growth on the back of its head.
Last Updated: Saturday, May 25, 2013, 12:24
Researchers from the US and Australia have claimed that they can now use fossil teeth to calculate when a Neanderthal baby was weaned.
Last Updated: Tuesday, May 14, 2013, 14:01
Researchers believe study of early human fossil ear bones could shed new light on the earliest existence of humans.
Last Updated: Saturday, May 11, 2013, 10:21
For the first time in human history, the carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in the atmosphere has passed the milestone level of 400 parts per million (ppm).
Last Updated: Thursday, May 2, 2013, 14:02
The fossil specimen of an ape skeleton, which was unearthed in Spain in 2002, has been assigned to a new genus and species, Pierolapithecus catalaunicus.
Last Updated: Friday, April 19, 2013, 13:07
Researchers examining fossil eggs have found that a small, bird-like North American dinosaur incubated its eggs in a similar way to brooding birds - bolstering the evolutionary link between birds and dinosaurs.
Last Updated: Sunday, March 31, 2013, 12:44
Russian scientists, studying pre-historic life, have named a recently discovered fossil ichthyosaur after Vladimir Lenin, the father of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.
Last Updated: Wednesday, March 6, 2013, 16:36
Canadian paleontologists have discovered the fossilized remains of a giant camel that lived in the Arctic some 3.5 million years ago.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 17, 2013, 12:47
India`s first recorded dinosaur has been rediscovered in Kolkata, according to a top scientific journal.
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 8, 2013, 16:28
A 28-foot reptile species is the first top marine predator that fed on similar-sized prey more than 244 million years ago, say findings based on a fossil recovered from the Nevada desert.
Last Updated: Monday, January 7, 2013, 17:57
Birds have a beak to manipulate their food but a new fossil discovery found that some birds evolved teeth adapted for specialised diets.
Last Updated: Wednesday, December 5, 2012, 15:41
Researchers are using the imprints of raindrops preserved in a 2.7 billion-year-old rock to figure out what the atmosphere was like on the early Earth.
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