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Spinosaurs were adapted with long crocodile-like jaws and conical teeth to stalk riverbanks looking for prey, often large fish.

Stephen Fry and Dr Susie Maidment will appear together in a new four-part series about dinosaurs - that features CGI technology - which is set to launch on Channel 5 over the weekend

A site in Kenya has yielded some of the oldest stone tools ever found — and fueled a mystery of who used them

Presence of teeth from extinct hominin challenges view that only members of Homo genus used complex tools

The discovery of fossils of 2.9-million-year-old butchered hippopotamus surrounded by crafted stone tools in Kenya suggests early humans may not have been the first species to use tools.

Butchery marks on an extinct kangaroo fossil found off the Eyre Peninsula's west coast could reveal a possible human and megafauna relationship.

The newly re-opened museum will open until 9pm once a week

When I was a kid, I knew all the dinosaurs — not personally, of course, because they were extinct by then, and woolly mammoths roamed the earth. But I was a fan of such prehistoric stars as brontosaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex and especially Raquel Welch, who wore a cave woman bikini…

This prehistoric flying reptile had some bizarre teeth for filtering prey

The oldest known example of a well-preserved vertebrate brain is a fossilized fish that was discovered a century ago

Researchers hail ‘world-class discovery’ that suggests cave bears may have lived farther south in than thought