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The team is working with colleagues at London’s Natural History Museum and the Hastings Museum and Art Gallery.

UK scientists used hundreds of tiny fossils that lived in the sea at the time to understand climate shifts tens of millions of years ago

Researchers say fossilised marks were apparently made in same place within days of each other about 1.5m years ago

Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were neighbors some 1.5 million years ago

Albanese government has all but abandoned plan to raid balances over $3m; sales of drug for medicinal purposes could reach $1bn this year

Research on fossilized feces from Poland sheds light on dinosaur evolution and adaptation over 30 million years.

Scientists are using used fossilized feces and vomit from Poland to reconstruct how dinosaurs came to dominate the Earth

Some early dinosaurs consumed charcoal to cleanse stomach after eating toxic ferns, study says

She was, for a while, the oldest known member of the human family. "The impact of the discovery was very big in the discipline and even the whole world," he told AFP. Lucy showed that members of the human family existed beyond three million years ago, and she also provided…

Paleontologists compared the bones and joints of birds to dinosaurs to find links in new Yale University study

Melting snow and ice has revealed footprints of reptiles and amphibians, dating back 280 million years