Scientists from Brazil say a recently discovered fossil may help explain how dinosaurs evolved and came to rule the planet.

He called on fellow fossil hunters to help him recover the bones - thought to be between 650,000 and 800,000 years old - and said future storms could uncover more of the skeleton. "No one has ...

Mr Adams said it was the first known hippo fossil from any site in Britain older than 750,000 years. The study, published in the Journal of Quaternary Science and co-authored with researchers from ...

The dwarf hippo was about 286 pounds ... so for both species to disappear from the fossil record in such a short amount of time is a paleontological mystery. A map of Cyprus showing the ...

Asian mammals eventually became dominant in Balkanatolia, resulting in the extinction of local animals such as the hippo-like embrithopods. That explains both the strange history of fossils in the ...