The Latest Breaking News on Paleontology

A new study reveals that an El Niño weather pattern in the world’s major ocean added to climate chaos and led to extinctions spreading across the globe.

Dinosaurs, children’s adventures, horror fantasies … stop-motion cinema has done them all. Now it’s being celebrated as a pivotal part of movie history

Tusked animal depicted in rock art doesn’t match any modern species

Academic who coined the word presenteesim says ‘micromanagers’ will not attract talent and may harm productivity

Hoo Zoo and Dinosaur World is launching a major search for Cinnamon after receiving new information after a public appeal

Zoo’s appeal urges members of public not to try and capture the ‘beloved’ animal themselves

Around 252 million years ago, the world suddenly heated up. Over a geologically brief period of tens of thousands of years, 90% of species were wiped out. Even insects, which are rarely touched by such events, suffered catastrophic losses. The Permian-Triassic mass extinction, as it’s known, was the greatest of…

Researchers find two sites with fossils including saber-toothed salmon and megalodon, the huge prehistoric shark

Four galleries to be overhauled and two more spaces to reopen, including Fixing Our Broken Planet exhibition