What did the face of our ancestors look like three million years ago? Our international team has answered this question by ...

Archaeologists have found a prehistoric human skeleton deep inside a flooded cave system on Mexico’s Caribbean coast.

Incredible discoveries keep happening in the most unlikely places.

Some of the oldest human remains in North America have been discovered in the sinkhole caves known as ‘cenotes’ ...

An 8,000-year-old skeleton discovered deep within a flooded cave system on Mexico's Caribbean coast is shedding new light on the prehistoric inhabitants of the Yucatán Peninsula. The remains, found by ...

For ninety million years, a two-pound skeleton lay hidden in the red sandstones of Patagonia.

New evidence has been discovered to resolve a case of a mysterious dinosaur excavated in the 1940s that has long puzzled scientists. The mysterious small skull excavated in the 1940s was thought to be ...

This is the story of Ardi (Ardipithecus ramidus), one of our special ancestors called hominis. The discovery of her 4.4-million-year-old skeleton challenged everything we knew about evolution. Let's ...

A skeleton discovered on Dorset’s Jurassic coast has been identified as a new species of prehistoric marine reptile that once ruled the oceans. The dolphin-sized ichthyosaur, called Xiphodracon ...

Sponges may be ancient, but their timeline has been murky. New research suggests the earliest sponges were soft and ...

Scientists were “astonished” to find a new species of Spinosaurus with a scimitar-shaped bony crest—uncovered in the Sahara Desert.