A new species of coelacanth has been identified from a 150-year-old fossil housed at London’s Natural History Museum. Former University of Portsmouth palaeontology student Jack L. Norton located the ...

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A new study suggests that for the last 74,000 years, malaria shaped where early humans could live in Africa—fragmenting populations and influencing patterns of exchange long before recorded history.

It’s not little green men with flying saucers and laser guns that scientists are worried about, instead our foes will be much ...

Compiled by the Wellcome Sanger Institute and published in Frontier Economics, it is thought that sequencing all species from ...

How and why the Cambrian explosion occurred has been the subject of debate ever since fossils of this remarkable event were ...

The mystery of a controversial fossil, once believed to be the oldest known octopus, has finally been resolved. First ...

As the cave was over 100 kilometres from the coast when the pendant was made 15,000 years ago, it suggests that ancient humans were travelling long distances, perhaps as they followed migrating ...

One specimen that Diego always enjoys checking in on is the coelacanth. This legendary fish was once believed to have gone extinct in the era of the dinosaurs, but, astonishingly, living populations ...

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Animals bite, grind and grab with their teeth – but nothing used its mouth quite like Tanyka amnicola. With its uniquely twisted jaw and sideways-facing teeth, the new species was a relic of an ...