"It is just possible that it was nibbled off by a dinosaur" Part of a fossilised tree has left two experts stumped after they started to investigate how it came to be in a park in Derby. The stump of ...

Researchers have analysed the oxygen isotope ratios in fossilised dinosaur teeth, specifically the tooth enamel. The tooth ...

A team of international researchers has reignited a centuries-old debate after uncovering new evidence suggesting that the ...

A 500-million-year-old sea creature called Mollisonia shared a similar brain structure to modern spiders, suggesting that arachnids first evolved in the sea ...

I was one of the palaeontologists on a dinosaur dig in outback Queensland, Australia, that unearthed “Judy”: an exceptional sauropod specimen with the fossilised remains of its last meal in ...

Life Fossilised droppings tell the story of dinosaurs' rise to power An analysis of hundreds of bromalites – fossilised faeces and vomit – shows how changes in diet enabled dinosaurs to take ...

Finely preserved brain features in a tiny fossil suggest that spiders and their kin may have first evolved in the ocean ...

A 13-million-year-old leg bone from an enormous flightless bird carries crocodilian tooth marks, showing South America was ...

The tiny dinosaur species were herbivores, only 28 inches long and walked on two legs. Their remains, more than 150 million ...

The fossil remains of a species of flying reptile considered a close cousin of the dinosaur and believed to have roamed the earth tens of millions of years ago has been discovered on a beach on ...

The oldest fossilised termites have been found in the northern hemisphere about 150 million years ago, during the Late Jurassic Period. What is exciting is that our trace fossils show they had reached ...

Fossilised plant leaf wax provides new tool for understanding ancient climates Date: March 2, 2018 Source: University of Birmingham Summary: New research has outlined a new methodology for ...