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.

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.

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

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

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.

A young paleontologist may have discovered a record of the most significant event in the history of life on Earth.

Fossil found in Canada suggests pair were curled up together in a den when they died

Dinosaurs may have been fearsome and intimidating creatures that dominated the prehistoric earth – but it did not stop them having their feathers ruffled by parasites, researchers have found.

The tail of a feathered dinosaur has been found perfectly preserved in amber from Myanmar.

100-million-year-old insects that fed on feathers are the oldest licelike fossils known

Nine human species walked the Earth 300,000 years ago. Now there is just one. The Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis, were stocky hunters adapted to Europe's cold steppes.

A skeleton from the Cretaceous found in Japan reveals an early bird with a tail nub resembling the avians of today

Dinosaurs lived on the other side of the galaxy. This animation combines paleontology and astronomy to show how that works.

We invoke their name as an insult, but continuing discoveries about the extinct Neanderthal culture suggest the existence of a rich, complex symbolism we still do not fully understand. Now, we have another artefact to admire.

The pterosaur fossil is most closely associated with species from the other side of the world, suggesting these creatures could circumnavigate the globe.

Australian researchers have found a new species of pterosaur in outback Queensland.

A new species of dinosaur has been discovered, after being misidentified and kept in a museum collection for several decades.

A Triceratops fossil was uncovered by a UC Merced student and an experienced excavator in the Badlands of North Dakota.

A college student made the discovery of a lifetime on a recent paleontology dig when he unearthed a partial Triceratops skull.