Palaeontology is the study of prehistoric species, mostly ones that are extinct. It focuses primarily on fossil data, using a variety of physical, chemical and biological techniques to analyse them.

First unearthed in the 19th century, Archaeopteryx lithographica is a pivotal fossil that bridges the gap between reptiles and birds. With features such as feathers, wishbone, and bird-like wings, yet ...

A team of researchers may have determined where fossils older than any we’ve ever found may be buried A new paper in Current Biology posits that remnants of an earlier evolutionary stage of dinosaur ...

(Sten Lennart Jakobsen | East Zealand Museum) About 66 million years ago, just before the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs, a fish chewed up and spit out some sea creatures. Unbeknownst to ...

"Nature really said, "Even dinosaurs had bad days."" quipped one user. Others poked fun at the vomit fossil, saying that it was a Dinosaur's vomit! Maybe the dinosaur was hungover? We don't know!

Part of one the largest ever stegosaur fossil found in the UK is set to return to the town it was found in. The bone came from a dinosaur discovered around 150 years ago in Swindon. Swindon ...

Join me as I dig into a 70-million-year-old dinosaur fossil site in Texas! 🦖 From uncovering turtle shells to a potential dinosaur skull, this adventure is filled with ancient treasures.

The Alberta state park has produced some of the most important dinosaur fossil discoveries ever made, including 35 species dating back some 75 million years. The vertebra has a circular ...

The research described these sort of fossils as “remarkably rare” adding that this fossil is “exceptionally preserved.” The 72 million-year-old embryo was found in a dinosaur egg in southern China ...

Researchers regularly find fossils in southern Brazil, Argentina and Zimbabwe that indicate dinosaurs inhabited the southern polar region toward the middle of the Triassic period (251.9 million to ...