Sensitive ones

Found at last

Remains of Neanderthals discovered in Germany

Bacteria fossils or mere rock?

Dinosaurs with wings

The first upright man

What would it mean to decolonise palaeontology? Here are some ideas

Nobody knows what decolonised palaeontology will look like but part of it must acknowledge Africa’s original fossil hunters, without&…

Scientists find nine-million-year-old ape fossils in Himachal Pradesh

Scientists discovered the surprise fossil during an excavation in Haritalyangar in Shiwalik hills region in Himachal Pradesh

Fossil evidence reveals that cancer in humans goes back 1.7 million years

Cancer is not the modern disease many believe it to be. New fossil evidence from two South African caves suggests that its origins lie deep in …

Happy threesome?

Three human species which scientists earlier believed came one after the other, may have actually coexisted in Java

The heart says it all

Scientists stumble upon a dinosaur fossil that could change theories of the animal's physiology

A treasure in eggs

Mysterious mammal

Breaking the ice on Antarctica

Fishing out temperature

Simian saga

SOUTH AFRICA

The oldest one

Number game

Species diversity alone is not the whole story of evolution

Dead ants ressurected

Answers from an asteroid

New light on evolution

An ancient jawbone may change our understanding of mammals

Fresh evidence

Fassil puzzle

Fossil statement

Fossil footprints give glimpse of how ancient climate change drove the rise of reptiles

A set of fossils that lay forgotten in a museum are revealing new secrets about Britain's prehistoric wildlife