PALAEONTOLOGY

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

Gualicho adds to the theory that T-Rex's small arms were not an ancestrally-inherited trait.

Antarctic fossils show Deccan Traps eruption and meteorite delivered 'one-two punch' to dinosaurs.

Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus was suffering from ameloblastoma and died before reaching adulthood.

Mammals began diversifying long before dinosaurs were wiped off the face of the planet.

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

Marine fossil analysis shows 70% of species wiped out after K-T mass extinction event.

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

Palaeontologist argues dinosaurs would have had scaly lips and gums covering their teeth.

Scientists suggest Pelagiarctos thomasi ate small animals rather than large marine creatures and sea birds.

'Strangely toothed' creature that lived 242 million years ago was first herbivorous reptile.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Scientists in Chile make dinosaur-like legs grow on chickens by inhibiting malnutrition gene.

Tyrannosaurus rex discovered with medullary bone indicating fossil was female.

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