University of Otago researchers unearthed these rare fossils in Miocene-era crater lake sediments at Hindon Maar near Dunedin ...

Australia's forest ecosystems, renowned for their extraordinary diversity of rare plants and animals, also play a vital role ...

Newly discovered insect fossils are so small they can barely be seen by the human eye but have been preserved in an ...

Ancient fossils which date back to a period between 39,800 and 54,600 years ago offer a fascinating insight into the habits ...

Fossils of 600-million-year-old "tiny humanoids" were discovered in Antarctica. A story perpetuated in some social media ...

Whitefly fossils from 15 million years ago found in New Zealand give rare insights into ancient ecosystems and insect ...

Two species of ancient human relatives crossed paths 1.5 million years ago. Fossilized footprints in Kenya captured the ...

About 1.5 million years ago, individuals of two different species in the human evolutionary lineage trudged on a muddy ...

A "provocative" new piece in Nature has proposed a whole new group of ancient humans – cousins of the Denisovans and ...

Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our ...

A 1.5-million-year-old lakebed from Kenya shows two ancient human relatives cohabitating an environment, shaking up our ...

The only first certain signs that ancient humans were living together came in 2010, when researchers published the complete ...