After learning about prehistoric monkeys using natural rafts to cross the Atlantic over 30 million years ago, read about ...

In a rare find, a team of scientists in Egypt uncovered a nearly complete skull that offers insight into a not-before-discovered apex predator species that lived 30 million years ago. Published on ...

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of a "fearsome" leopard-sized predator that would have ruled the lush forests of Egypt some 30 million years ago. A largely complete fossil skull of ...

much closer to 30 million years ago, either post-dating or at about the same time that there was volcanic activity that could have produced land,” said lead author Simon Scarpetta, a herpetologist and ...

Scientists found the nearly complete skull of a new 30-million-year-old “top apex ... Relatives spread from Africa in waves and, by 18 million years ago, their relatives were among the ...

Ian Randall is Newsweek's Deputy Science Editor, based in Royston, U.K. His focus is reporting on science and health. He has covered archeology, geology, and physics extensively. Ian joined ...