The Latest Breaking News on Paleontology

Discovery of record number of dinosaur footprints to reveal secrets of two-legged giants

A team of paleontologists has discovered and documented thousands of footprints

The Independent UK · Dec 9, 2025

Scientists document largest trove of dinosaur footprints in central Bolivia

Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from supernaturally strong monsters — capable of sinking their claws even into solid rock

The Independent UK · Dec 8, 2025

‘The dinosaurs didn’t know what was coming, but we do’: Marina Silva on what needs to follow Cop30

Exclusive: Brazil’s environment minister talks about climate inaction and the course we have to plot to save ourselves and the planet

The Guardian - UK · Dec 3, 2025

Retired Australian teacher discovers the oldest fossil of its kind in southern hemisphere – and a new species

Robert Beattie, 82, has found specimens of a 151m-year-old midge that challenge what we know about how the insects evolved

The Guardian - AU · Nov 8, 2025

UK seizes Jurassic dinosaur fossils worth £12m from Chinese money-laundering suspect

Dinosaur skeletons were bought last year at Christie’s Jurassic Icons auction for £12.4m

The Independent UK · Nov 6, 2025

Santa Jaws is coming to town to launch museum’s sustainable Christmas jumper

This year’s collection has been created using 100% sustainable cotton.

Evening Standard · Nov 4, 2025

Researchers discover new tyrannosaur species in ‘duelling dinosaurs’ fossil

Analysis of Montana fossils shows the battling predator was a fully grown Nanotyrannus, not a young T rex

The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2025

Newly discovered skeleton rewrites ‘decades of research’ over T. rex

The new skeleton is dubbed ‘Dueling Dinosaurs’ because it was found intertwined with the bones of a Triceratops

The Independent UK · Oct 30, 2025

Remains of dinosaur ‘mummies’ found 100 years ago in Wyoming still have skin and hooves, researchers say

The skeletons of the duck-billed dinosaurs, Edmontosaurus Annectens – which lived more than 66 million years ago in the late Cretaceous period – were unearthed in 1908 in a ravine area of east-central Wyoming

The Independent UK · Oct 28, 2025

How do hot air balloons steer and what makes frogs ‘ribbit’? The kids’ quiz

Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzes

The Guardian - UK · Oct 25, 2025