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'Astonishing' fossils from Niger have been named as Spinosaurus mirabilis.

The identity of a mysterious Roman-era skeleton found in southern England may have finally been resolved.

We were not the first species to master the flame.

New Australopithecus fossils found in Ethiopia are changing the human family tree.

The reanalysis of an ancient human skulls might upend how we thought humans evolved.

The cause of sea star wasting disease has been identified, offering hope that the epidemic might be overcome.

Crisps and mash owe their existence to a series of precise events that took place nine million years ago.

One evening, while walking along the riverbed of the Myakka River State Park in Sarasota, Florida, USA, one evening, Larry came across a group of alligators. It was the dry season, and they had been gorging on fish trapped in the pools left behind as the

Worms and snails have been found living in cavities under hydrothermal vents more than 2.5 kilometres beneath the ocean's surface.