Prints show the tracks of three ‘titanosaurs’ that took a seaside stroll more than 165 million years ago.

The tiny skull of what is thought to be the smallest known dinosaur that lived during the age of the dinosaurs has been discovered in 99-million-year-old amber from Myanmar.

Often typecast as spear-wielding mammoth killers, some Neandertals were beachcombers and surf divers, researchers say. At Moscerini Cave, located on Italy’s western coast, Neandertals collected clamshells on the beach and retrieved others from the Mediterranean Sea, say archaeologist Paola Villa of the University of Colorado Boulder Museum of Natural History and her colleagues. Our close, now extinct evolutionary relatives waded or dove into shallow waters to collect shells that they sharpened into scraping or cutting tools, the researchers report January 15 in PLOS ONE.

The shark was likely similar in size to great whites, which grow to an average of around 15 feet.

A new species of tyrannosaur — the oldest ever found in Canada — has been discovered in Alberta. Thanatotheristes degrootorum was as long as two cars lined up bumper to bumper and would have towered over an adult human. It stood about 2.4 metres tall at the hips, said Jared Voris, a University of Calgary PhD candidate who led the research identifying it as a new species.

The "Reaper of Death" is Canada's first new tyrannosaurus species in 50 years.

Half a century after archaeologists found pollen around the skeleton of a Neanderthal, the discovery of new remains could reveal more about ancient death practices among these human cousins.

Fresh evidence shows two prominent south-west Victorian volcanoes, Budj Bim and Tower Hill, erupted at least 34,000 years ago and that people were in the area before those eruptions.

Someone call Steven Spielberg

A newly discovered "King of Gore" tyrannosaur pushes back the origins of T. rex's terrifying family tree to at least 80 million years ago, report paleontologists.

The controversial discovery of 68-million-year-old soft tissue from the bones of a Tyrannosaurus rex finally has a physical explanation. According to new research, iron in the dinosaur's body preserved the tissue before it could decay.

A new horse species, which roamed the Earth approximately 4.4 million years ago, has been discovered from fossils found in Ethiopia, scientists are reporting. Scott Simpson, who is a professor of anatomy at Case Western School of Medicine, and is also one of the chief scientists over this research study, stated that the horse fossils that were discovered were only a few pieces of an extremely complex puzzle which included many parts.

Neanderthals died out long ago, but their genes live on in us. Scientists studying human chromosomes say they've discovered a surprising amount of Neanderthal DNA in our genes. And these aren't just random fragments; they help shape what we look like today, including our hair and skin.

Scientists have discovered the fossil remains of an ancient marine reptile in the act of being born.

The teenage boys couldn't resist posing for selfies with the stars of the show. It didn't matter that these stars were the famous dinosaur fossils at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. If you think kids outgrow dinosaurs by kindergarten, think again. "The dinosaurs were amazing. It is astounding that these creatures once roamed the Earth," said Khaliq Sanda, a high school senior.

Sharks turn out to be more modern and sleek than anyone had ever imagined, given a new study that negates a prior theory that today’s sharks are “living fossils,” changing little over time.

A new type of Tyrannosaur with a very long nose has been nicknamed "Pinocchio rex". The ferocious carnivore, nine metres long with a distinctive horny snout, was a cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex. Its skeleton was dug up in a Chinese construction site and identified by scientists at Edinburgh University, UK.

The world's oldest and best preserved sperm has been discovered in 17 million-year-old fossils unearthed in far north Queensland. The sperm of an ancient species of freshwater shrimp, which were found inside a rock taken from the Riversleigh World Heritage area, were not only hardy, but huge compared to the animal's body size. The not-so-little swimmers were as long as the crustacean itself, which was only a couple of millimetres in length.

The case was cold, but critical clues pointed to a killer's identity in ancient Madagascar

In the dinosaur kingdom, the raptor reigns as a pop-culture bogeyman. While not as big as the T. Rex, the feathered creature had a mean set of teeth and claws. But there was at least one refuge from its tyranny: the air.