Last Updated: Thursday, August 29, 2013, 13:44
Dead for millions of years, they are now at the risk of yet another death!
Last Updated: Friday, August 23, 2013, 18:55
Flooding in northeastern China has inundated famous dinosaur excavation sites and a local museum, as workers worry dinosaur fossils may be swept away.
Last Updated: Sunday, August 11, 2013, 15:25
An evolutionary ecologist from the University of Southampton, is using "grains of sand" to understand more about the process of evolution.
Last Updated: Thursday, July 11, 2013, 15:09
A new study helps answer a long-standing question in palaeontology, as to how numerous species of large, plant-eating dinosaurs could co-exist successfully over geological time.
Last Updated: Friday, June 14, 2013, 11:32
A new study has found that a wide variety of flying reptiles were present in England 110 million years ago.
Last Updated: Thursday, May 30, 2013, 12:14
An international team of scientists believes archaeopteryx, a raven-sized creature that lived about 150 million years ago, should indeed be considered a bird.
Last Updated: Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 13:25
A new analysis of differently-aged brain fossils from the same species of dinosaur has revealed new insights into how the organ developed in the 150-million-year old creatures.
Last Updated: Thursday, May 16, 2013, 12:40
Discovery of two fossils from the East African Rift has provided new information about the evolution of primates, according to a study.
Last Updated: Tuesday, April 30, 2013, 16:35
Tiny 1,900 mn-yr-old fossils from rocks around Lake Superior, Canada, has given the first ever snapshot of organisms eating each other.
Last Updated: Tuesday, April 23, 2013, 14:25
The unique marine ecosystem of today`s Antarctic seas first developed when large ice sheets formed on Antarctica around 34 million years ago, according to new research involving a scientist from the University of Southampton.
Last Updated: Thursday, April 18, 2013, 09:28
Scientists have decoded the DNA of a celebrated "living fossil" fish, giving them new insights into how today`s mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds evolved from a fish ancestor.
Last Updated: Thursday, April 11, 2013, 09:07
Scientists on Wednesday said they had unearthed a treasure trove of fossilised dinosaur embryos dating back some 190 million years, a find that sheds light on how these enigmatic reptiles developed in the egg.
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