Tag: Palaeontology News

Human beings are said to have originated in Africa, but there are several theories surrounding where, when and how they ...

Jurassic era giants living in seas were twice as large as killer whales, a new study has suggested. An animal ...

Among dinosaurs, a sub-group called the sauropods are known for their extremely long necks. Now, calculations have shown that at ...

Modern birds which could fly have a specialised wing structure which makes them capable of flight. This structure is called ...

Archaeologists have discovered the earliest human remains ever found in northern Britain, and determined they date back to 11,000 years. ...

Researchers have identified an unusual new species of pterosaur in Germany. The pterosaur species had over 400 teeth similar to ...

An asteroid over kilometres wide collided with Earth over 66 million years, triggering a mass extinction and killing most dinosaurs. ...

A group of female fossil hunters in Queensland, Australia have discovered the fossilised remains of a 100-million-year-old plesiosaur in a ...

Modern lizards originated around 35 million years earlier than believed so far, according to a new study on a fossil ...

A new study, published in the journal Fossil Record, has determined that the remains of a dinosaur cousin, unearthed in ...