It was time to find out, and so I called palaeontologist Professor Paul Barrett. Paul is a scientist who has named around 20 ...

✅ Know Your Terms: Hominin refers to all humans, plus our ancestral species who walked upright on two feet (including members of the genera Homo, Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and Ardipithecus ).

An unassuming-looking fossil that spent 40 years lying forgotten in a drawer has turned out to be the first dinosaur bone ever found in Antarctica. The specimen was unearthed in 1985, but the team ...

Clams and snails rule today’s shores because their ancient ancestors survived a catastrophe that erased nearly all ocean life. The shells scattered along modern beaches are clues to an ancient ...

Sam Neill, a smoothly elegant and versatile actor whose career moved from art film to blockbuster as he dodged velociraptors ...

The remains of a dinosaur skull found in British Columbia campground belonged to a tyrannosaur that was lighter and faster ...

Dinosaurs disappeared millions of years ago, but scientists are still uncovering new clues about how they lived and evolved. Every major fossil discovery helps researchers better understand what the ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

A newly discovered feathered dinosaur called Jian changmaensis may be the missing predator responsible for mysterious piles of crushed prehistoric bird bones in China. The four-winged glider, a close ...

A groundbreaking discovery has been made by paleontologists in Africa with the identification of a new dinosaur species, Musankwa sanyatiensis, found in Zimbabwe. This find not only enriches our ...

With the passing of Sam Neill, the famous "Dr. Alan Grant," the era launched by Jurassic Park comes to a close: a time when ...

What if we told you that one of the most extraordinary dinosaur fossils ever found was in India — a snake caught mid-strike, coiled around dinosaur eggs, frozen in time for 67 million years? In this ...