August

One of the earliest examples of a symbiotic relationship between invertebrates has been found in 520-million-year-old fossils from China.

Secrets of how the extinct dodo lived have finally been uncovered.

New dating of teeth from a cave in western Sumatra, Indonesia, suggests that modern humans were present in tropical southeast Asia earlier than previously thought.

A patterned prehistoric human bone from an archaeological site in Somerset has revealed that the practices of ancient cannibals were ritualistic, and not simply about survival.

Scientists have named a fearsome prehistoric crocodile after Motörhead frontman Lemmy.

Some of the highest areas of wildlife diversity in east African forest regions are not within protected areas, a study suggests.