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

"It is just possible that it was nibbled off by a dinosaur" Part of a fossilised tree has left two experts stumped after they ...

In a new paper published in Current Biology, we describe these gut contents while also revealing that Judy is the most complete sauropod, and the first with fossilised skin, ever found in Australia.

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 ...

Teeth marks made on the leg bone of a large avian reptile known as a terror bird 13 million years ago suggest an even bigger ...

The oldest protein fragments ever recovered have been extracted from fossilised teeth found in Kenya's Rift Valley, revealing ...

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

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 ...

An “extremely rare” 250,000 year-old bone unearthed in Devon is being examined by a Peterborough palaeontologist.

Examining fossilised pigments, scientists from the University of Bristol have uncovered new insights into blue colour tones in prehistoric birds. For some time, paleontologists have known that ...

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 ...

Since the late 19th century, sauropod dinosaurs (long-necks like Brontosaurus and Brachiosaurus) have been almost universally regarded as herbivores, or plant eaters. However, until recently, no ...