A team of scientists who study vertebrate fossil tracks and traces on South Africa's southern Cape coast have identified the ...

A fossilised 113-million-year-old hell ant from Brazil adds to the evidence that the first ants evolved in the southern ...

More than 75 million years ago, a giant reptile known as the “terror crocodile” roamed the waters of North America.

Coprolites – fossilised droppings – are seldom found conveniently beside the tracks of the depositor. We showed our new colleagues known fossil tracksites, without providing our own ...

If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

The fossil, found 250 miles (402 kilometers) north of Cape Town in South Africa, is a new species of multisegmented arthropod that may have lived in oxygen-poor waters, according to the study ...

Around 600 million years ago, South America was joined to Antarctica, Australia, Africa and Asia in ... in South America where dinosaur fossils have ever been found and the discovery has proven ...

Paleontologists have unearthed the oldest fossil belonging to the hominin species Homo erectus. The 2 million-year-old fossil skull, excavated over a five-year period in South Africa, suggests the ...

Why do the Galapagos Islands of South America and ... Apes today live only in Africa and Asia, and that is where the fossils most resembling modern apes are also found. There are no apes, fossil ...

Since 2008, through the Cape South Coast Ichnology project ... confirming the first fossil hyena trackway ever to be found. Swapping techniques The Late Pleistocene is not that far distant ...

Coprolites - fossilised droppings - are seldom found conveniently beside the tracks of the depositor. We showed our new colleagues known fossil tracksites ... by and about Africa - aggregating ...

Our mission is to find and document the fossilised tracks and traces of creatures that existed during part of the Pleistocene Epoch, between 35,000 and 400,000 years ago, on the Cape coast of South ...