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"Blindsnakes are not very pretty, are rarely noticed, and are often mistaken for earthworms," admits Blair Hedges, professor of biology at Penn State University. "Nonetheless, they tell a very interesting evolutionary story

DNA from a finger bone of a female found in southern Siberia.reveals a previously unknown human species, which lived about 48,000 to 30,000 years ago in the Altai Mountains in Central Asia

Dinosaurs linked to Tyrannosaurus Rex once terrorized Australia, a new fossil discovery has shown

Scientists have developed a new method to determine the age of ancient mummies, old artwork, and other relics without causing damage to these treasures

Utah's red rocks -- world-famous attractions at numerous national parks, monuments & state parks has yielded a rare skeleton of a new species of plant-eating dinosaur that lived 185 million years ago & may have been buried alive by a collapsing sand dune

A shade more than 200 million years ago, the Earth looked far different than it does today. Most land on the planet was consolidated into one continent called Pangea

A new species of dinosaur, a relative of the famous Velociraptor, has been discovered in Inner Mongolia by two PhD students

Scientists have unearthed the remains of one of the world's rarest fossils -- in downtown Ottawa, Canada. The 450-million-year-old fossil preserves the complete skeleton of a plumulitid machaeridian, one of only 8 such specimens known

It might sound like a mashup of monster movies, but palaeontologists have discovered evidence of how an extinct shark attacked its prey, reconstructing a killing that took place 4 million years ago

In a world first an international team of researchers, led by Dr Michael Bunce of Murdoch University, have successfully isolated ancient DNA from fossil eggshell remains of extinct birds