Centrosaurus
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Fossils contain a thriving world of bacteria, proteins and perhaps even organic matter from dinosaurs.
Was velociraptor a feathered friend? Here’s one artist’s impression.
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When the first Jurassic Park film came out, we didn’t know which dinosaurs had feathers. But a few years later, a very important discovery was made that changed our thinking on how dinosaurs looked.
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Local tetrapod biodiversity exploded after the dinosaurs, but has barely changed in 60m years.
The dinosaur Ledumahadi mafube - reconstructed in this illustration - made headlines in 2018.
Viktor Radermacher
Five major finds this year adds to our understanding of evolution and ancient life history.
Mary Anning painting.
Fossil hunter Mary Anning didn’t get the recognition she deserved during her lifetime. Now her home town wants to raise a statue in her honour.
Zhao Chuang and PNSO
A new type of Archaeopteryx fossil helps build the case for this creature being called ‘the first bird’.
The fossil of a Mesosaurus tenuidens, which provided important clues about tectonic shifts.
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Ancient indigenous people often collected fossil shells, teeth and bones that have provided critical clues about human origins.
Only you can prevent hothouse earths.
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What can we expect from our future climate after looking at the ‘Hothouse Earths’ of the past?
We’re gonna need an even bigger boat.
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Megalodons are the latest Hollywood monster to leap out of the fossil record, but what else is lurking in prehistoric seas?
Impression of Megachirella wachtleri walking through the vegetation about 240 million years ago in what is now the Dolomites region of Italy.
Davide Bonadonna
A new study of an ancient fossil has found it to be the earliest lizard known, so far. It shows they survived one the greatest mass extinctions on Earth.
Phillip M Krzeminski
New research shows that ground-dwelling birds were more likely to survive the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period.
“Mrs Ples” (who was actually very likely a “Mr”) forms part of the collection at South Africa’s Ditsong National Museum of Natural History.
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Museums might look dull and old from the outside, but they house a wealth of knowledge that we cannot afford to lose.
A life-like reconstruction of Llanocetus denticrenatus , the second oldest “baleen” whale ever found.
Carl Buell
Baleen whales are some of the least likely mammals, supporting their massive bodies by filtering tiny prey. New evidence from an ancient fossil sheds new light on how baleen evolved.
: Alex McClelland, Bournemouth University
How we discovered ancient footprints of early human hunters and their megafauna prey.
Nobumichi Tamura
A jaw bone found on a beach in Somerset could be from the largest ichthyosaur of its kind ever discovered.
Reconstruction of the bite wound affecting the shoulder of our herbivorous dinosaur.
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New research uses pathology in dinosaur bones to look at predator-prey interactions in the fossil record.
Chuang Zhao
Bipedal movement has existed in modern reptiles for much longer than we previously knew.
Simon Stalenhag
A drying climate caused a mass extinction among plants, but paved the way for the ancestors of modern reptiles, mammals, and birds.
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New research suggests life on Earth became more diverse because of a change in biology related to stem cells, not just rising oxygen levels.
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Lepidoptera insects are at least 70m years older than we previously knew.