Nearly 500 million years ago in the late Ordovician period, a mass extinction wiped out 85% of marine species. Scient...
Adding a new name to the family treePalaeoanthropologists have just announced the name of a new species of human,...
Fossils from a 190-million-year-old nesting ground have revealed that its dinosaurs likely lived in herds. The specie...
Fossil dinosaur footprints found 50 years ago in a Queensland coal mine – and long thought to belong to a massive Tri...
Picture the scene: you’re a crab minding your own business, scuttling along the shoreline on a balmy day when, out of...
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...
