Robuta

Jun 21, 2024 - The remains of the prehistoric crocodile-like species were found in a fossil-rich site in southern Brazil. Read to learn more.

Echidna Ancestors Lived Watery Lifestyles Like Platypuses 100 Million Years Ago New Study. As the world's only surviving egg-laying mammals, Australasia's...

Analyses of a soil sample from central Missouri suggest the date of onset of North America's most recent spate of ice ages.

Professor of Paleobiology, Richard Butler takes a look at the Dudley Bug

By studying a remarkable fossil, a scientist and his German counterparts are unraveling the secrets of an ancient beetle that wandered Earth almost 100 million...

Discover interesting facts about when dinosaurs lived, why they died and how big they got

The newly discovered trackways span 150 metres, providing a snapshot of dinosaur movements.

Earth, 220 million years ago

A giant mosasaur species called Thalassotitan atrox had teeth like a killer whale and ruled the oceans around Morocco towards the end of the Cretaceous period.

Jun 5, 2025 - Learn why early humans may have started using fires — not for cooking, but for securing and preventing their food from spoiling.

Fossils from New Zealand reveal the existence of a giant petrel with a wicked sharp beak that lived 3 million years ago.

A 1.78-million-year-old partial elephant skeleton found in Tanzania associated with stone tools may represent the oldest known evidence of butchery of the...

Meet Kostensuchus atrox, a massive apex predator that ate his way through southern Patagonia during the Age of the Dinosaurs.

Volcanic activity may have sparked ancient wildfires.

The exquisitely preserved embryo discovered in China was preparing to hatch from its egg just like a chicken.

Nov 19, 2025 - Study suggests kissing evolved in the common ancestor of humans and large apes 21 million years ago, and that Neanderthals likely kissed too.

May 28, 2025 - A 47-million-year-old cicada fossil from Germany’s Messel Pit could teach us about the evolution of insect communication.

Sauropod tooth scratches reveal that some dinosaurs migrated seasonally, others ate a wide variety of plants, and climate strongly shaped their diets....

Scientists may have detected a merger between a black hole and neutron star for the first time in history.

New evidence that the Great Dying was not caused by a space rock.

Jan 9, 2026 - Discover how the first mass extinction put jawed fishes on the map, species that would later come to dominate animal life on the planet.

Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the largest snake ever discovered, lived around 60 million years ago and could grow up to 47 feet long. While the snake's size and...

Reflecting on the story of how Sue found a way home, a quarter-century after discovery.

Human evolution wasn’t a straight line. Our tree of life? More of a shrub.

Paleontologists have identified more than 20 dinosaur and other vertebrate footprints on a rock wall in southwest China's Sichuan Province, a discovery they...