Dinosaurs

Size variations within a species or genus was very large, which may have made them more resilient to natural disasters.

Martha Henriques Dec 06, 2016

The fossil suggests that a group of feathered dinosaurs was thriving right before the mass extinction.

Martha Henriques Nov 10, 2016

The proteins show strong similarities to those found in the claw sheaths of birds living today.

Martha Henriques Nov 09, 2016

The earliest dinosaurs may have walked the Earth 20 million years earlier than we thought.

Martha Henriques Nov 09, 2016

Palaeontologists have been using a method that turns their results into nonsense.

Martha Henriques Oct 27, 2016

Scientists say microbial life soon returned to the site of an asteroid impact that wiped out 75% of all life.

Karthick Arvinth Oct 12, 2016

T-Rex and other large theropods that grew quickly in size often displayed crests or horns.

Léa Surugue Sep 27, 2016

The Chinese Psittacosaurus could disguise itself from predators.

Lucy Pasha-Robinson Sep 18, 2016

Vivaron haydeni lived in what is now the US state of New Mexico during the Triassic Period.

Aristos Georgiou Sep 09, 2016

Hundreds of millions of years ago four-limbed vertebrates began venturing out of the oceans and onto the land.

Aristos Georgiou Sep 07, 2016

Over 40 different animal species have been identified at the site, many of them superbly preserved.

Aristos Georgiou Sep 07, 2016

Discovery alters traditional view that skies of Late Cretaceous period were dominated only by large beasts.

Aristos Georgiou Aug 31, 2016

The rare discovery is estimated to be just 15% smaller than the largest T Rex ever found.

Aristos Georgiou Aug 19, 2016

Remains of a strange creature have been found by Siberian miners in diamond-yielding sands.

Léa Surugue Aug 10, 2016

Taxpayer-backed Biblical theme park is packed with scientific inaccuracies complains Nye.

Mary Papenfuss Jul 19, 2016

Asteroid impact would have burned huge oil reserves, potentially blocking 90% of the sun for years.

Nick Longrich Jul 15, 2016

Fossils from the Devonian era have been discovered, boosting knowledge of what nature was like millions of years ago.

Léa Surugue Jun 01, 2016

Reptile fossil makes rapid evolution to adapt to post Permian-Triassic mass extinction era.

Léa Surugue May 23, 2016

Researchers show movement of dinosaurs across the globe during Mesozoic Era.

Hannah Osborne Apr 25, 2016

Fossil of infant Rapetosaurus krausei shows giant dinosaurs were born with adult proportions.

Hannah Osborne Apr 21, 2016

Dinosaur species were going extinct faster than new ones were emerging long before mass extinction asteroid.

Matt Atherton Apr 18, 2016

Study says Earth passed through an interstellar cloud 66 million years ago, cooling the planet and killing dinosaurs.

Matt Atherton Apr 02, 2016

Paleontologists have dated the skull of a Siberian unicorn to 27,000 BC.

Mark Piggott Mar 29, 2016

Australopithecus fossils found east of the Great Rift Valley shed a light on early humans spatial distribution.

Léa Surugue Mar 24, 2016

The Tully Monster was probably a vertebrate, similar to the jawless fishes we know today.

Léa Surugue Mar 16, 2016

A unique dinosaur exhibition opens at the Nottingham Natural History Museum in the summer of 2017.

Fiona Keating Mar 12, 2016

Ichthyosaurs became extinct long before other dinosaurs, and scientists have now worked out why.

Matt Atherton Mar 08, 2016

Researchers hope core samples will reveal ancient history and how life revived after devastating space-rock impact

Mary Papenfuss Mar 08, 2016

Latest find sheds light on dinosaur community in North Africa 95 million years ago.

Hannah Osborne Mar 01, 2016

A study of 12,000-year-old DNA reports that the creatures called glyptodonts inhabited South America.

Fiona Keating Feb 22, 2016