The first newborn Ichthyosaurus communis is described. It has its last (and perhaps first) meal preserved in its stomach...

Ichthyosaurs were a highly successful group of marine reptiles that became extinct about 90 million years ago. The first ichthyosaur...

The islands of the Mediterranean are well-known for their mild climate, beautiful beaches, traditional villages, and...

We know from discoveries at Niah Cave that early modern humans were exploiting rainforests on the island of...

Human arrival in Australia marks a watershed in human evolution, because the journey required...

Native Americans and the peoples of East Asia share features such as eye shape, hair form, details of tooth shape and significant parts of...

Many scientists accept that the Omo Kibish and Herto (Ethiopia) fossils, dated between about 150-200,000 years ago, represent the earliest known...

In 2015, over 1500 fossils from a nearly inaccessible chamber in the Rising Star cave system near Johannesburg...

Sixty-six million years ago a worldwide cataclysmic event marked the end of the Mesozoic Era and changed the whole course of life on earth...

Humans are part of the wider mammalian group called Primates, and more narrowly are most closely related to the living great apes, in particular...