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This image provided by Sahout Rock Art and Archaeology Project shows a life-size rock carving of a camel, in a desert in northern Saudi Arabia in 2023. Photo: AP/UNB

Scientists discover ancient life-size animal rock art in Saudi Arabia

The discovery suggests people inhabited the area about 2,000 years earlier than previously believed

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Million-year-old skull may rewrite timeline of human evolution

Chinese scientists have discovered new fossils unearthing mysteries about human evolution. Photo: BSS

China discovers landmark human evolution fossils

A fossil footprint in northern Kenya hypothesised to have been created by a Homo erectus individual, is seen in this photograph released on 28 November 2024. Photo: Reuters

Fossil footprints in Kenya show two ancient human species coexisted

Fossils reveal head of ancient millipede that was biggest bug ever

Fossils reveal head of ancient millipede that was biggest bug ever

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Ancient giant tortoise fossils found in Colombian Andes

The two metre long fossil is one of the most complete specimens of its type ever discovered. Photo: BBC

Skull of huge sea monster Pliosaur discovered in UK's Dorset cliffs

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12-million-year-old whale fossil skull found in Maryland

An illustrated reconstruction of the large Cretaceous Period sea turtle Leviathanochelys aenigmatica, which lived about 83 million years ago and whose fossils were found in Catalonia's Alt Urgell county in northeastern Spain, is seen in this undated handout image. ICRA_Arts/Museu de la Conca Della - Institut Catala de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont/Handout via REUTERS

Fossils of car-sized dinosaur-era sea turtle unearthed in Spain

Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi, founder and director of the paleontology department at the Museum of Natural History of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, shows the fossil remains of a crocodile that inhabited the planet seven million years ago, giving scientists clues about how modern day crocodiles, who live in freshwater ecosystems, come from the sea, in Lima, Peru May 16, 2022. Picture taken May 16, 2022. REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda

Prehistoric fossil in Peru sheds light on marine origin of crocodiles

Representational image. Photo: REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay

Big fossil fuel producers' plans far exceed climate targets, UN says

The new ctenophore fossil, Daihuoides jakobvintheri, was found in the fine sediments from Miguasha cliffs along the Restigouche River in the Gaspé Peninsula, eastern Québec. (Johanne Kerr)

Finding a rare fossilized comb jelly reveals new gaps in the fossil record

Fossilized human fossilized footprints at the White Sands National Park in New Mexico. (AP)

Around 23,000 years old human footprints in North America found in New Mexico