Ancient fossil fills a 75 million-year gap and rewrites lizard and snake history
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...
2 years agoA 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...
2 years agoA 400-million-year-old fossilised fish skull gives us very early and previously unknown clues about how boney fishes evolved into the vertebrates we...
2 years agoA prehistoric murder mystery...
2 years agoThe one-of-a-kind story of an ancient shark that broke a tooth off on a croc turd.
2 years agoSome of the eggs even had the remains of pterosaur embryos preserved inside!
3 years agoThe little cave lion has been frozen in time by the Siberian permafrost for at least 20,000 years.
3 years agoA research team has unearthed evidence of a huge carnivorous dinosaur that once roamed southern Africa.
3 years agoWhen it comes to naming ancient species, some palaeontologists have a little more fun than others.
3 years agoFossilised "last meals" are incredibly rare! And according to scientists, this is the oldest known example of a frog-eating salamander.
3 years agoCT scans are helping palaeontologists get inside dinosaurs' heads.
3 years agoFossils of dinosaurs and other ancient creatures unearthed from 70-million-year-old rock in Madagascar tell a potentially toxic tale.
3 years agoTwo ancient lizards entombed long ago in amber represent two palaeontological mysteries waiting to be solved.
3 years agoDinosaurs once occupied just about every corner of the planet, from the northern reaches of Alaska and Siberia all the way down to the Antarctic. So...
3 years agoSome fossil mysteries are solved by palaeontologists and ... armadillo experts?!
3 years agoAncient “squirrels” figured out how to fly 100 million years before true mammals did.
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