Nature Do hippo bones prove the Arabian desert was once covered in water? Archaeologists have uncovered stone tools and hippopotamus bones near ancient lake beds on the Arabian Peninsula. 08/09/2021
United Kingdom 'Wonderchicken': Meet the small bird that outlived the dinosaurs It survived the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs. 19/03/2020
New Zealand Ancient giant parrot discovered in New Zealand Named Heracles inexpactatus - signifying its Herculean size and the suprise of the discovery - the parrot is the largest ever discovered. 07/08/2019
Greece Partial skull found in Greece is Europe’s oldest human fossil Researchers have dated a skull found in the 1970s to be the oldest modern human outside of Africa. 11/07/2019
Kenya Giant 'lion' fossil discovered in Kenyan museum drawer Simbakubwa kutokaafrika had a skull the length of a rhino’s and canines the size of bananas. 19/04/2019
France Primitive life existed on earth over 2 billion years ago: researchers French researchers have discovered that life was already moving on our planet earlier than first thought — now thought to be 2.1 billion years ago. Previously, early life forms were said to date back 1.5 billion years. 19/02/2019
world news British man unearths rare Ice Age walrus skull on dog walk A dog walker has uncovered a rare Ice Age-era walrus skull on a beach in northern England, in a discovery that experts hope will lead to a greater understanding of the species and its life on Europe’s prehistoric coastlines. 29/07/2018
