If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a ...

The number of dinosaurs may have been stable before the asteroid impact, despite evidence that species were getting less ...

An in-depth assessment reveals that dozens of giant amphibians died on an ancient floodplain. Around 230 million years ago, ...

Have you ever wondered what the world looked like millions of years ago? Imagine walking in a place where every rock could ...

Researchers have discovered two new species in a 125-million-year-old fossil in China. While they’d be wiped out by a T-Rex ...

A new study challenges the long-held belief that dinosaurs were already declining before the asteroid impact 66 million years ...

Scientists have finally solved the mystery of how the fossilized feathers of a 30,000-year-old vulture were preserved with such unprecedented levels of detail. The griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus ...

The fossil set included both of the dinosaur's arms, including claws, part of its pelvis and much of its backbone, and they are three-dimensional, not flat outlines in rock. The fossils date to ...