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Fossils of early Earth life may be on the Moon

Evidence of the earliest forms of life on Earth may actually be scattered across the lunar landscape as meteorites, British scientists believe.

Giant impact explains Martian mystery

For nearly 30 years, space scientists have wrestled with one of the greatest enigmas in the Solar System: why does Mars have two faces?

Volcanic eruptions reshape Arctic ocean floor

Recent massive volcanoes have risen from the ocean floor deep under the Arctic ice cap, spewing plumes of fragmented magma into the sea, scientists who filmed the aftermath have reported.

Sea level flux drove mass extinctions

Mass extinctions that wiped out up to 90 per cent of Earth's flora and fauna were driven in large part by shifting ocean levels, a new study suggests.

Dino bone betrays southern links

A fossilised bone originally found 20 years ago may hold the key to the enigmatic origins of Australia’s dinosaurs, a new project has found.

Sex secrets of a prehistoric marsupial

A long-standing mystery concerning the number of species of the largest known marsupial, the ancient Diprotodon, has been resolved, say experts, and sheds light on its mating practices.

Attention deficit disorder aided early humans

A genetic propensity for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder may actually help people thrive in nomadic environments, says a study of Kenyan tribesmen.

New Zealand colonised later than thought

A new analysis of rat bones has challenged a controversial claim that Polynesians first arrived in New Zealand 2,000 years ago. The first colonists really did arrive 700 years ago, says the report.

The mystery of the 'real' Aztec crystal skulls

The inspiration for the latest Indiana Jones movie are real crystal skulls held in the British Museum and the Smithsonian Institution. But a new study now claims that the skulls are fakes.

Indiana Jones: "nightmare" archaeologist

Indiana Jones may provide great entertainment but he's an ethical nightmare as an archaeologist, says the head of the World Archaeological Congress.

Tasmanian tiger gene fragment resurrected

DNA from the extinct Tasmanian tiger has been successfully extracted and used to resurrect a functioning version of a gene fragment in a mouse.

Bouncing Solar System killed the dinosaurs

Was the demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago somehow linked to our Solar System's journey through the galaxy? The way our Sun bounces through the galactic plane may send comets hurtling to Earth, say researchers.

Vultures facing extinction in India

Asian vultures may face extinction in India unless a veterinary drug responsible for their large-scale decimation is banned outright, according to a report released on Sunday.

Earth's poles long overdue for reversal

A reversal of the Earth's magnetic poles could happen sooner than we think, according to Dutch scientists who report that the planet's magnetic field is becoming gradually less stable.

First lungless frog discovered

The discovery of a rare species of Indonesian frog that breathes without lungs could shed light on how evolution works, a scientist has said.

Aussie finds meteorite crater on Google Earth

A rare meteorite impact crater in remote Western Australia has been discovered by an Australian geologist using Google Earth.

Fossil faeces rewrite American history

Analysis of ancient human faeces suggests that people inhabited North America more than 14,300 years ago - roughly 1,000 years earlier than was previously thought.

Massive impact crater found in Scotland

Evidence of a half-kilometre-wide meteorite, which struck Earth 1.2 billion years ago, has been discovered near the town of Ullapool in Scotland.

Are Earth's oldest fossils just rocks after all?

Using multi-coloured spray paint, researchers have shown how rock-structures similar to the 'stromatolites' that scientists think are among the earliest fossils on Earth can form in the absence of life.

More hobbits in the Pacific?

South African anthropologists have discovered fossils of an extinct hobbit-like people on a Pacific Ocean island where they lived up to 3,000 years ago.

Catastrophic ancient flood cooled the Earth

Canadian geologists have shed light on how a vast lake, trapped under the ice sheet that once smothered North America, drained into the sea – an event that cooled Earth's climate for hundreds of years.

Out of Africa: Human odyssey traced in detail

Diving deep into the human genome, scientists have drawn up the most detailed maps to date of our migrations and evolutionary past.

Odd predatory dinos share features with hyena and shark

The remains of two new predatory dinosaurs, one with a penchant for gnawing on carcasses, the other for severing body parts, have been unearthed in Africa.

How birds first took to flight: new clues

Experts have fought long and sometimes bitterly about how birds evolved – but a new study suggests that their intellectual battle may have been in vain.

Ancient rat was one-tonne behemoth

Fossil hunters have uncovered the greatest rodent that ever lived – a one-tonne behemoth that bestrode the swamplands of South America some four million years ago.

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