Between 5,000 and 14,000 years ago, the Sahara Desert looked nothing like it does today. It was lush and green, with lakes ...

They instead dated the charcoal and animal bones around the skeleton to between 27,700 and ... part of a protein that's found ...

New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, ...

In this short film for primary schools Martin Hughes-Games looks at the skeletons of animals and humans and explains how and why they have changed. Martin joins a team of young science enthusiasts ...

Osteology is an area of anthropology that includes the study of human and animal bones and ... by what a bone can reveal about an animal. Skeletons are an absolute classic during Halloween season.

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch followed the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that killed off non-avian ...

Early bipeds, such as Ardipithecus kadabba which looked a bit like a gorilla, lived in Africa between 5.8 and 5.2 million years ago. They lived in mosaic habits (a mixture of open and wooded ...

Take a close look at the bones of the largest animal ever to have lived in this interactive 3D model of a blue whale skeleton. Whale hello there! Walk beneath the largest animal on Earth and explore ...