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200 million-year-old 'monster snake' reptile identified as new species
Vivaron haydeni lived in what is now the US state of New Mexico during the Triassic Period.
Fossil analysis shines light on transition of animals from ocean to land 400 million years ago
Hundreds of millions of years ago four-limbed vertebrates began venturing out of the oceans and onto the land.
An exceptional palaeontological site going back 100,000 years is unearthed in northern Spain
Over 40 different animal species have been identified at the site, many of them superbly preserved.
Rare and tiny pterosaur discovered from the age of flying giants
Discovery alters traditional view that skies of Late Cretaceous period were dominated only by large beasts.
Major new T Rex fossil discovered
The rare discovery is estimated to be just 15% smaller than the largest T Rex ever found.
Cannibalistic prehistoric shark fed on its babies when food was scarce
Baby shark teeth were found in 300 million years old adult poop fossils.
Mystery mummified monster discovered in Siberia diamond pit
Remains of a strange creature have been found by Siberian miners in diamond-yielding sands.
Super scanner reveals brain of 200 million-year-old dinosaur
Synchrotron scans of most complete fossil ever discovered to reveal how this primitive dinosaur species lived
Bill Nye the Science Guy trashes 'brainwashing' Noah's Ark Encounter theme park
Taxpayer-backed Biblical theme park is packed with scientific inaccuracies complains Nye.
Did a burning oil spill wipe out the dinosaurs?
Asteroid impact would have burned huge oil reserves, potentially blocking 90% of the sun for years.
Evil dinosaur with tiny 'T-Rex' arms discovered in Patagonia
Gualicho adds to the theory that T-Rex's small arms were not an ancestrally-inherited trait.
Massive volcanic eruptions, global warming and an asteroid: How dinosaurs became extinct
Antarctic fossils show Deccan Traps eruption and meteorite delivered 'one-two punch' to dinosaurs.
Transylvanian duck-billed dinosaur with fossilised facial tumour discovered for first time
Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus was suffering from ameloblastoma and died before reaching adulthood.
Rise of the mammals began 20 million years before dinosaurs became extinct
Mammals began diversifying long before dinosaurs were wiped off the face of the planet.
Mystery fossils discovered dating back 360-million-years in South Africa
Fossils from the Devonian era have been discovered, boosting knowledge of what nature was like millions of years ago.
Dinosaur-killing mass extinction event just as deadly to life in Antarctic
Marine fossil analysis shows 70% of species wiped out after K-T mass extinction event.
Sclerocormus parviceps: Fast evolution of strange reptile sheds light on mass extinction events
Reptile fossil makes rapid evolution to adapt to post Permian-Triassic mass extinction era.
Did T-Rex have lips? Dinosaurs were not so ferocious-looking after all, says palaeontologist
Palaeontologist argues dinosaurs would have had scaly lips and gums covering their teeth.
Ancient 'killer walrus' was not the bone-crunching beast scientists had believed
Scientists suggest Pelagiarctos thomasi ate small animals rather than large marine creatures and sea birds.
Atopodentatus unicus: Hammerhead sea monster was world's first vegetarian reptile
'Strangely toothed' creature that lived 242 million years ago was first herbivorous reptile.
Mystery exodus of dinosaurs from Europe plotted by scientists
Researchers show movement of dinosaurs across the globe during Mesozoic Era.
Tiny titanosaur: Fossil of baby Rapetosaurus reveals how world's biggest dinosaurs reared young
Fossil of infant Rapetosaurus krausei shows giant dinosaurs were born with adult proportions.
Dinosaurs 'past their evolutionary prime' 50 million years before asteroid struck
Dinosaur species were going extinct faster than new ones were emerging long before mass extinction asteroid.
Giant interstellar dust cloud colliding with Earth 'pushed dinosaurs to extinction'
Study says Earth passed through an interstellar cloud 66 million years ago, cooling the planet and killing dinosaurs.
Unicorn-like creatures did exist and probably lived alongside humans
Paleontologists have dated the skull of a Siberian unicorn to 27,000 BC.
Australopithecus: Human ancestors better at adapting to new environments than thought
Australopithecus fossils found east of the Great Rift Valley shed a light on early humans spatial distribution.
Tully Monster mystery solved: 300-million-year-old creature was a vertebrate
The Tully Monster was probably a vertebrate, similar to the jawless fishes we know today.
Dinosaur legs grown on chickens in reverse evolution experiment
Scientists in Chile make dinosaur-like legs grow on chickens by inhibiting malnutrition gene.
Pregasaurus rex: Pregnant T-rex identified through 68-million-year-old reproductive tissues
Tyrannosaurus rex discovered with medullary bone indicating fossil was female.
Gigantoraptor: World's largest feathered dinosaur coming to new UK exhibition
A unique dinosaur exhibition opens at the Nottingham Natural History Museum in the summer of 2017.