fossils

These beloved extraterrestrial beings have a host of biological quirks that resemble those found in many real animals.

These heavy terrestrial leviathans unfortunately became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period (65 million years ago).

A recent study shatters the theory of evolution. The work bucks the widely held belief that modern humans experienced an evolutionary decline in brain size. According to experts, the size of the human brain has not changed in probably 300,000 years.

It lived about 265 million years ago on the supercontinent Pangea, just before the dinosaurs. It had a semi-aquatic lifestyle like that of hippos.

It would be the last species of panda in Europe. It was the same size as modern ones and inhabited the forested wetlands of Bulgaria, fossil teeth have revealed.

It is a 3D preserved fish head belonging to 'Pachycormus', an extinct genus of ray-finned fish. It contains scales and an eye.

Footprints found by chance on a restaurant patio in China are from two sauropods, dinosaurs that lived during the early Cretaceous.

The footprints, a total of 88, which belonged to both adults and children between the ages of five and twelve, were discovered at an Air Force base in the US.