The whole Earth is our laboratory, and fieldwork is an integral part of our teaching. An exciting programme of field trips is included in your tuition fee. Palaeontology is the study of the life of ...

Learn from experts with interests ranging from dinosaurs to plants to the origin of life and be fully immersed in hands-on palaeontology from the start. One third of the first year is dedicated to ...

对于霸王龙及其近缘物种的研究，一直是学术界和大众较为关注的话题。近些年来对于霸王龙及其近亲的起源、个体发育、种群生态学以及相应的生物力学研究，都是横空出世。去年年末，一项关于幼年暴龙科恐龙食物的研究映入人们的眼帘，这项研究说的是霸王龙的近亲—一只幼年 ...

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The local discovery of dinosaur fossils in Hong Kong thrust Michael Pittman into the spotlight but few are aware of the ...

All of this requires expertise in many areas of science. As such, palaeontology combines elements and technologies from biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and even computer sciences.

A fearsome flesh-eating bird from the Phorusrhacid family - known as "terror birds" - may be the largest of its kind ever ...

当最后披毛犀占据更新世北境的同时，一群有巨大角且体重不逊于今天白犀的真板齿犀（ Elasmotherium ）也出现在西伯利亚等地。它们的亲缘关系和现存所有犀牛和披毛犀相对远一些，但也是真犀科成员。这些“独角兽”的祖先原本角很小或者没有，也就是早期的板齿犀族成员，后来在演化过程中出现了相对大的鼻角，再之后鼻角和额角逐渐合并成一个，头部也变得粗壮，体型也渐渐增大。

The Fossil Expo will run from 4pm to 7pm on Thursday, November 14 - and it's absolutely free to attend. The event will ...

The geographic, stratigraphic and historical coverage of the seven million vertebrate, invertebrate and plant fossils in the Museum's palaeontology collection make it globally important. Our ...

In an electrifying discovery that has captivated Hong Kong and the wider paleontological community, Hong Kong authorities ...

Analyzing a leg bone from a fossil site in Colombia, scientists have identified a massive “terror bird” that lived about 12 ...