Researchers from the United Kingdom’s Natural History Museum and the University of Portsmouth revealed how the bird has re-evolved from the same ancestral species on a group of four coral islands in the Indian Ocean. The findings have been published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society this week.

The study of fossils gets a new chapter as scientists have found abundance of fossils which date back to 500,000-year-old. Palaeontologists in China made the discovery that hardly anyone would have imagined.

Named as Saltriovenator zanellai, the scientists describe him to be 25 feet long and over a ton in weight. With astonishing figures, the species appear to be the largest-known carnivorous dinosaur that had ever existed.

Feathers are inherent feature what make a bird a bird. And, not only in birds, have some insects too had tiny wings. The study of feathers, their origin and nature have long mystified bright minds, since time immemorial. While a lot has been discovered in this particular field, scientists are still trying to better understand how and why feathers vary from birds to birds and insects to insects. Recently, a new discovery pushes back the origin of feathers by some 70 million years.

The study dinosaur fossils and their evolution received a new dimension when paleontologists say that they have discovered two new dinosaur fossils in China. An international team of scientists found the bones of the dinosaurs namely Bannykus and Xiyunykus, indicating the adaptations related to eating insects that live in colonies. The findings have shed light on the evolution of insect eating dinosaurs.

As per report, the bat is likely to be a biggest burrowing bat yet known with an estimated weight of 40gms. It is also the first time in last 150 years, a bat species has been discovered in New Zealand.

NASA's Curosity Rover have revealed impressions that look "remarkably similar" to trace fossils on Mars, scientists, including one of Indian-origin has claimed.

Not one but two 3.5-million-year-old bears had sweet tooth for berries, found Paleontologists. They have discovered ancient teeth with cavities that serve as evidence.

While the fossils suggest huge, hefty ancient penguin, the largest living penguin, the Emperor penguin, is a good bit shorter - around 4 feet.

Till date, it has been told that modern humans or homo sapiens evolved out from Africa to Asian continents about 60,000 years ago. But, researchers are now revising the history with new facts.