The native Maori of New Zealand tell of a giant man-eating bird called Te Hokioi. Now scientists have identified a real bird that fits the description. Haast’s Eagle has been extinct for only 500 years, and may be the...

Scientists found the fossil of an ancient squid of the species Belemnotheutis antiquus at a dig near Trowbridge, England, when they reopened an archaeological site that had been abandoned for 170 years. Inside there was...

Scientists thought they'd never know what colors the dinosaurs were, since fossils are rock-colored and even recently-discovered mummified scraps of the animals are faded. Jakob Vinther, a graduate student at Yale, was r...

The standard theories of why Neandertals disappeared 28,000 years ago don't hold up, so scientists are looking in new directions. The assimilation/interbreeding theory should've yielded some DNA evidence, but there is no...

Scientists have announced the discovery of a giant dinosaur in Utah. The fossil skeleton belonged to Nothronychus graffami, which stood 13 feet tall and had claws nine inches long! Its skeleton, described in the curren...

A 400 million-year-old fossil fish with a reproductive organ resembling a penis has been identified by Australian scientists. This is the earliest known structure used for sexual reproduction as we know it. The bone atta...

Three new species of diniosaur have been found in the Australian outback. Two plant-eating species were nicknamed "Clancy" and "Matilda". The third dinosaur is a carnivore dubbed Australovenator Wintonensis, but nickname...

Paleontologist Mary Schweitzer of North Carolina State University and colleagues apparently have never watched Jurassic Park. Why else would she extract dino "blood" from ancient bones?A dinosaur bone buried fo...