For decades, scientists have been learning more about the diets of early hominins, particularly their reliance on plants. Yet we still don’t know when these ancestors of humans started eating meat.

For much of the twentieth century, sharks and large reptiles were assumed to define the upper limits of dental sharpness in the history of life. That assumption has been revised by detailed ...

A new study published in Science Advances reveals how early mammals grew and developed during their pivotal Jurassic radiation. Using a technique called synchrotron X-ray tomography to image growth ...

The fossilised teeth of 18-million-year-old mammals in Kenya have yielded the oldest protein fragments ever recovered, extending the record age for ancient proteins fivefold. Daniel Green at Harvard ...

Fossils of archaic humans found in a cave in Casablanca are helping to fill a gap in the history of humanity's evolutionary ...

Fossils from 280,000 years ago have revealed that some rock wallabies once left their clifftop sanctuaries to travel huge distances across Australia. The University of Wollongong and CQ University-led ...