Picture the scene: you’re a crab minding your own business, scuttling along the shoreline on a balmy day when, out of...
The modern domestic horse is beloved worldwide as a favoured pet or an aid in the busy work of tending crops and live...
New research from the Netherlands has more accurately dated a Viking settlement in Newfoundland, Canada, revealing th...
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A new study has pushed back the estimated age of 50 footprints preserved in rocks on the Mediterranean island of Cret...
Six years ago, grazier Robert Hacon was driving around his cattle property in outback Queensland when he drove over w...
All other photos in this story by Ian Connellan. On a hillside just west of the Flinders Ranges, geologist Mary Dr...
Happy Fossil Day from Cosmos! Palaeontologists simply can’t stop finding fossils, and leading researchers say it’s...
Happy Fossil Day! Here at Cosmos, we love a good yarn about fossils, from dinosaurs to ancient humans to the earliest...
From million-year-old dinosaur remains to ‘resurrecting’ mammoths, stories in the news about ancient DNA make it seem...
A brand-new species of ancient tardigrade has been discovered in 16-million-year-old Dominican amber. The newly fo...
Scientists trace the evolution and migration of ancient hominins to the edges of India Human history can be characte...
