New research shows that ground-dwelling birds were more likely to survive the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period.
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Research suggests a new threat to life on Earth from the meteorite’s crash: Via seismic waves, the impact triggered massive undersea eruptions, as big as any ever seen in our planet’s history.
As a new David Attenborough documentary examines a remarkable fossil, a leading expert gives his verdict.
The location of a dinosaur find on a remote Queensland sheep station was lost for almost 80 years. But the site was rediscovered, and details are now emerging about the make up of the new dinosaur.
Dinosaur bones unearthed at one of Australia’s richest fossil sites have introduced us to a new species: Savannasaurus, one of a family of huge dinosaurs that trekked here more than 100 million years ago.
An exciting discovery suggests small pterosaurs weren’t forced out by the rise of birds.
New research suggests the Chicxulub asteroid impact threw up billions of tons of oil soot that blocked out the sun for a decade.
New study supports the idea that an asteroid, rather than climate changes, caused the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.
The idea that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a giant asteroid was ridiculed – until the remains of a giant crater were found deep underground.
We don’t know much about dinosaurs from the east coast of the USA. But the discovery of a new sheep-sized dinosaur helps shed light on their mysterious evolution.
Beak evolution in some dinosaurs has been attributed to diet, rather than flight. A study has examined the skull of Erlikosaurus…
Hummingbird-pollinated flowers evolved perfectly to suit the bird’s bill shape, its colour vision and even its taste buds. This is the beauty of co-evolution, where two species interact so closely that…
A commonly-held belief for many years - that 90 million years ago, a continental ice sheet formed during the Late Cretaceous…
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Senior Lecturer in Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Life Sciences at the University of Bath, University of Bath
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Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of Bristol
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Senior Curator of Geosciences, Queensland Museum, and Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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