Scientists have uncovered the bones of a dinosaur-like creature that roamed Earth at least 10 million years earlier than the oldest known dinosaur, according to a recent study.

A weak magnetic field and powerful solar wind stripped water from the early Earth's atmosphere 3.5 billions years ago and created stunning auroras, scientists said.

Small, domesticated dogs probably originated in the Middle East more than 12,000 years ago as the descendants of grey wolves.

Can life arise from nothing but a chaotic assortment of basic molecules? The answer is a lot closer following a series of ingenious experiments that have shown evolution at work in non-living molecules.

The celebrated Pharaoh Tutankhamun was subjected to modern genetic testing and computer technology to reveal that his parents were siblings and he was likely killed by malaria.

Previously unknown organic molecules have been discovered in a 40-year-old meteorite, suggesting the early Solar System contained a soup of highly complex organic chemistry long before life appeared.

A drop in global oxygen levels may have led to air-breathing marine animals 375 million years ago, said scientists, challenging the theory that it evolved in frolicking freshwater fish.

The father of evolution Charles Darwin was a direct descendant of the Cro-Magnon people, whose entry into Europe 30,000 years ago heralded the demise of Neanderthals, scientists revealed.

The key anomaly in the Australian megafauna debate has been resolved, and "if people hadn't arrived in Australia, we'd still have the giants of yesteryear to admire," the lead researcher said.

Scientists in China are collecting DNA from hundreds of men with the surname Cao in the hope they can prove a recently excavated tomb in central China belongs to the legendary warlord Cao Cao.

Elaborate eye make-up worn by Ancient Egyptians not only made for a dramatic look, but also protected against disease, says a new study.

An Australian Aboriginal 'Dreaming' story has helped experts uncover a meteorite impact crater in the outback of the Northern Territory.

Ancient koalas may have enjoyed a much more diverse diet than today’s koalas, but were probably just as loud and lazy as their modern cousins.

Extinct woolly mammoths and ancient American horses may have been grazing the North American steppe for several thousand years longer than previously thought.

Fossils found in a southern French valley suggest our ancestors may have reached Europe 1.57 million years ago - 200,000 years earlier than previously thought.

Newly unearthed fossils of a previously unknown species of carnivorous dinosaur has answered some long-standing questions about early dinosaur evolution.

The extinction of mammoths in North America at the end of the last ice age was not caused by a change in the ecosystem: it's what triggered the changes, a new study suggests.

An anatomical reanalysis of an extinct pterosaur, dating to the time of the dinosaurs, suggests the creature literally sailed the seas.

Earlier this year a fantastically preserved 47-million-year-old primate, was the subject of a heated debate. But a new study says it can’t possibly be an ancestor of humans.

Debate on a comet impact 12,900 years ago, and whether it is linked to mass extinctions of large mammals and early humans in North America reopened this week.

Move aside Chicxulub; an even bigger asteroid impact off the coast of India may have been ground zero for the dinosaurs, U.S. and Indian scientists say in a controversial finding.

The remains of a ‘four-winged’ dinosaur in China has resolved the ‘temporal paradox’ in palaeontology, confirming that birds owe their ancestry to two-footed dinosaurs.

An ancient site of worship for the dugong, or sea cow, has been discovered in the Persian Gulf and predates other similar worship sites by more than 5,000 years.

New research suggests that the echidna may have evolved from a platypus-like animal, sometime in the last 30 million years. The discovery may explain a confusing lack of echidnas in the fossil record.

At just 1% of the size of its later relative, a tiny new ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex has been unearthed in China.