An analysis of ancient teeth is giving scientists a rare peek into interactions between human relatives hundreds of thousands ...

A hole drilled into a 60,000-year-old molar suggests that Neanderthals practiced complex dental care long before modern ...

A bizarre new giant dinosaur discovered in Argentina is giving paleontologists a fresh look at how Jurassic titans evolved in ...

A Peterborough paleontologist has made a giant discovery – finding the remains of a rare 99 million year old creature.

While skin bone plates are well studied in crocodylians (shown here in a gharial, in purple), their presence in lizards and ...

Forget what you thought you knew about fireflies. A remarkable discovery reveals their iconic glow was already lighting up ...

What starts as a list of obscure carnivorous dinosaurs quickly becomes a terrifying journey through some of the strangest ...

The largest predators in Earth’s oceans are typically vertebrates, so when palaeontologists recently announced they’d found ...

Imagine a world where the ground was dotted with creatures bigger than your wildest nightmares, not roaring beasts, but bugs ...

Researchers around the planet grew up watching documentaries hosted by the English broadcaster and naturalist, which sparked ...

The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.