Indigenous Australians may have been early "paleontologists," not big-game hunters, according to a new analysis ...

Palaeontologists say there is no hard evidence in the fossil record that extinct Australian megafauna were butchered by First ...

Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei.

Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human ...

New technology has shown the incision marks likely made by humans on the fossilised bone of an ancient kangaroo were in fact made after the bone was ...

A groundbreaking study published in October 2025 has proposed a new perspective on the early inhabitants of Australia, ...

Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected ...

Largely outshone by fossils of horses, the earliest camels are getting another look from scientists determined to sort out ...

A trove of specimens from New Mexico may help settle a long-running argument about the diversity of dinosaurs before their ...

We genuinely believe that COPs have been co-opted by the fossil fuel industry, to such an extent that we’re seeing thousands of lobbyists turn up each year,” said Patrick Galey, the head of fossil ...

Recent analysis of two fossils from Australia, estimated to be about 50,000 years old, suggests that Australia’s First Peoples valued big animals for their fossils as well as ...