Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...

This is the first time that major deities have been found depicted on a relief from an ancient Assyrian palace.

New discoveries of fossil clawed footprints from Australia, published in Nature, push the origin of reptiles back in time by ...

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Our world has been shaped by two all-consuming conflicts - and by a global superpower stand-off that brought the world to the brink of destruction. Explore the in-depth sections below.