One question asked frequently by undergraduates to Kevin Padian stuck with him: Why are the arms of Tyrannosaurus rex so ridiculously short.

In 1347, plague first entered the Mediterranean via trade ships transporting goods from the territories of the Golden Horde in the Black Sea

Ancient genomes of 13 Neandertals provide a rare snapshot of their community and social organization over hundreds of thousands of years.

Discovery sheds light on the Tuatara, the last living member of a once-diverse group of reptiles that has almost entirely been supplanted.

An analysis of DNA from 12th-century human remains has provided new insights into Ashkenazi Jewish population history.

The skeleton — incredibly, mostly intact — was first found by a graduate student in the Virginia Tech Department of Geosciences.

The mountain fortress of Rabana-Merquly in modern Iraqi Kurdistan was one of the major regional centres of the Parthian Empire.

An exceptional prehistoric site discovery containing the remains of animals that lived in a tropical sea has been made in a farmer’s field.

Cutting-edge DNA sequencing of more than 400 Viking skeletons scattered across Europe and Greenland will rewrite the history books.

Archaeologists have started a dig at a 5,000-year-old tomb linked to King Arthur hoping to answer questions surrounding the site.

It’s what’s inside Stanleycaris’ head that has researchers most excited. Remains of the brain are still preserved after 506 million years.

Researchers have identified the remains of one of Europe’s largest ever land-based hunters: a dinosaur that measured over 10m long.

In a world first, researchers have revealed that early humans across southern Africa made a particular type of stone tool in the same shape.

Scientists have described the youngest therizinosaur fossil from Japan and the first in Asia to have been found in marine sediments.

One of the most exciting moments of the new Jurassic Park sequel, Jurassic World Dominion, is when Quetzalcoatlus swoops down from the sky.

One fateful day some 66 million years ago, a 7.5-mile-wide space rock slammed into the Earth ending the age of the dinosaur.

The paper challenges new theories that the earliest human inhabitants of North America arrived before the migration of people from Asia.

To reconstruct the cookery of people who lived thousands of years ago, bones and plant remains can tell us which ingredients were available

It had long been thought that the famous site of Stonehenge served as an ancient calendar, given its alignment with the solstices.

The asteroid which killed nearly all of the dinosaurs struck Earth during springtime according to an international team of researchers.