Will Dunham
‘Little Foot’ fossil sheds further light on human origins
Sophisticated scanning technology is revealing intriguing secrets about Little Foot, the fossil of an early human forerunner that inhabited South Africa 3.67...
‘Gnarly’ tumour shows dinosaurs got cancer
When scientists first unearthed fossils of a horned dinosaur called Centrosaurus in the badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park in Canada’s Alberta province...
Science reveals grey hair, stress link is real
Marie Antoinette’s hair turned white overnight, according to folklore, before she was executed by guillotine in 1793 during the French Revolution. The...
‘Good enough for a Hollywood horror film’: Meet the piranha-like fish which menaced Jurassic seas
You can call it a prehistoric prequel. In southern Germany, scientists have unearthed the fossil of a fish that, with its mouth...
Mars discovery signals possibility of life: NASA
A NASA rover has detected a bonanza of organic compounds on the surface of Mars and seasonal fluctuations of atmospheric methane, in...