The Latest Breaking News on Paleontology

Researchers hope the find will help them to learn more about how dinosaurs became extinct

Creature has been named Vectipelta barretti after Prof Paul Barrett of London’s Natural History Museum

In June 1993, director Steven Spielberg released a film that unleashed a wave of technological change in film-making and simultaneously helped to revive popular interest in dinosaurs.

Until now, the hard-shelled egg was thought to be the key to the success of the amniotes.

Some of the world’s most popular museums are natural history collections: Think of dinosaur fossils, gemstones and preserved animals. Herbaria – collections of pressed, dried plant specimens – are a less-known but important type of natural history collection. There are some 400 million botanical specimens stored across over 3,500 herbaria…

The remains of more than 15 individuals belonging to a previously unknown species of extinct human, dubbed Homo naledi, have been found in a cave. However, whether H. naledi buried their dead or created rock art is in dispute, based on their brain size.

India hosts well-preserved volcanic and sedimentary rocks as old as 3.5 billion years, and has similar geologic history to parts of South Africa and Australia

Practical effects from 1993 can invoke far more awe than today’s weightlesss CGI blobs.

After almost 30 years of Jurassic Park history, Ariana Richards has revisited her memorable moment of fear.