palaeontology

Drone mapping of dinosaurs' tracks is expected to revolutionise the way researchers investigate dinosaurs.

India Ashok Mar 25, 2017

Another look at the evolutionary history of dinosaurs resolves a long-standing puzzle about birds' earliest ancestors.

Martha Henriques Mar 23, 2017

The discovery was made by scientists at the Swedish Museum of Natural History.

Agamoni Ghosh Mar 15, 2017

The species, Anchiornis, already had drumstick-shaped legs and bird-like footpads.

Hannah Osborne Feb 28, 2017

The find is the first in its group – which includes dinosaurs – to have given birth to live young.

Martha Henriques Feb 14, 2017

Mass eruption at one of the world's biggest volcanic features contributed to extinction of the dinosaurs.

Hannah Osborne Feb 09, 2017

Haematite made from dinosaur blood acted as an antioxidant to preserve the protein collagen, palaeontologists say.

Martha Henriques Jan 31, 2017

The pterosaur Hatzegopteryx had a thick stocky neck that allowed it to eat very large prey.

Martha Henriques Jan 30, 2017

Many of the specimens found at the site are incredibly rare, with soft body parts preserved including bones.

Martha Henriques Jan 26, 2017

The newly discovered species lived alongside dinosaurs at Egg Mountain in Montana, US.

Martha Henriques Jan 25, 2017

Huge species was as big as a wolf and is thought to be the largest otter to have ever lived.

Hannah Osborne Jan 23, 2017

The big chill that followed the impact appears to have played a bigger role in dinosaur extinction than we thought.

Hannah Osborne Jan 13, 2017

Bite marks indicate Carcharocles megalodon was feeding on relatively small prey before they disappeared.

Hannah Osborne Jan 12, 2017

Fossil of a wombat the size of a bull shedding light on how ancient Aboriginals lived.

Michael Westaway Jan 12, 2017

Mysterious ghost sharks share features with prehistoric symmoriiform sharks

Martha Henriques Jan 04, 2017

Dinosaurs were lumbered with an evolutionary 'dead man's hand' that birds escaped.

Martha Henriques Jan 02, 2017

These ferocious baby dinosaurs' teeth all fell out as they turned into adults.

Martha Henriques Dec 22, 2016

Dinosaurs became extremely diverse for three main reasons: specialisation, localisation, and speciation.

Nick Longrich Dec 13, 2016

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

Discovery could mean dinosaurs had much bigger brains than they are given credit for.

Hannah Osborne Oct 27, 2016

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

Martha Henriques Oct 27, 2016

A fossil shows that parrots like those alive today were in northern Asia millions of years ago.

Martha Henriques Oct 26, 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