The Latest Breaking News on Paleontology

Settling children into their new school year makes a lot of sense, but wouldn’t it be nice if adults had the same period of adjustment to every stage in life

Between 1500 and 2022, two orders, 10 families, and 71 genera of animals went extinct thanks to humans

Perhaps we introduce children to dinosaurs long before they understand evolution to teach them to imagine the past and to love doing so

Interactive dinosaur models based on those in Crystal Palace Park are now available to view online for the first time.

Talk about flower power. 

The discovery suggests Europe had its own family of small herbivorous dinosaurs distinct from Asia and North America.

‘While our evidence is suggestive, we do not consider it conclusive as yet’

Researchers reveal that necks of Plesiosaurs, which was five times the size of their trunk, were used for chasing speedy fishes

Fujianvenator prodigiosus, a pheasant-sized dinosaur, sheds light on the evolutionary stage of birds. It had a puzzling anatomy suggesting it was either a fast runner or lived a lifestyle like a modern wading bird.

In a paper published recently in Scientific Reports, scientists from IIT Roorkee have characterised dinosaur fossils from the middle-Jurassic period, found in the Thar desert near the Jaisalmer Basin by the Geological Survey of India. They discovered that they had uncovered remains of a sauropod dinosaur, which is the same…

Findings suggest how country may have been a ‘major centre of dinosaur evolution’