Analysis of the fossil suggests that the only two egg-laying mammals, platypuses and land-based echidnas, both descended from ...

Fossils of footprints over 160 million years old have helped paleontologists at the University of Leicester to narrow down ...

A recent study published in Papers in Palaeontology describes the discovery and identification of a new species of ...

The creatures, which resembled bizarre pandas, used the appendages for foraging.

The ancestors of today’s crocodylians survived two mass extinction events. A new study has revealed a key factor behind their ...

The dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid hit, a new study finds. Instead, poor fossilization conditions and ...

Fossils of Oculudentavis found encased in amber in Myanmar in 2020 have confounded scientists from around the world.

You wouldn't have been able to predict this looking at the modern ecosystem," said paper author and vertebrate paleontologist ...

A rare Middle Jurassic dinosaur skeleton, the most complete of its kind ever found in Scotland.

A newly described Middle Jurassic dinosaur from the Isle of Skye is the most complete specimen yet found in Scotland.

"The fastest dinosaur was likely an Ornithomimosauria," Susannah Maidment, a paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in ...

Fossilised remains of newly identified dinosaur species and mammal suggest they were both predator and quarry to each other ...