A team of paleontologists led by National Geographic Explorer Paul Sereno uncovered a trove of dinosaur fossils in the Sahara ...

The extinct flightless pigeon has captured imaginations for over 400 years. Experts and artists are now revealing how much we ...

As a technology broadcaster and journalist, largely for the BBC, I've spent the best part of two decades deeply immersed in these fast-evolving innovations.

It’s one of those “hang on, how?” moments. Woodpeckers spend most of their day smashing their heads into solid wood […] ...

About 32 years ago, in June 1993, Jurassic Park brought a new kind of prehistoric predators to the big screen - ones that felt astonishingly real. Combining groundbreaking CGI and animatronics, the ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

In 1929, archaeologists discovered the 140,000-year-old skeleton of a young girl in Skhūl Cave. The researchers believed her ...

New research suggests that modern conditions may trace back to Neanderthal skull traits we share with our extinct cousins.

In 1931, the Skhūl I fossil was uncovered at Mugharat es-Skhūl (the Cave of the Children), also known as Skhūl Cave, Israel.

23.This is Robert Earl Hughes, the one-time world's heaviest man and his pet dog: At his heaviest, Robert weighed over 1,000 ...

"The brain has no pain receptors. Although it processes pain signals from other parts of the body, the brain itself cannot ...

"The brain has no pain receptors. Although it processes pain signals from other parts of the body, the brain itself cannot ...