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.

The discovery of an impeccably preserved Celtic burial chamber in southern Germany is a "stroke of luck for archaeology," ...

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

Palaeontology is the study of prehistoric species, mostly ones that are extinct. It focuses primarily on fossil data, using a variety of physical, chemical and biological techniques to analyse them.

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

The fossilized leg bone of the terror bird went unidentified for almost 20 years. Nearly 12 million years ago, the largest ...

In the north of Tajikistan, within the Sughd region, scientists have made a significant discovery that has captured ...

A 12-million-year-old fossil has revealed what may be the largest known "terror bird" ever found, according to paleontologists.

A pair of paleontologists at The Open University, working with a colleague from the National Museum of Scotland, have ...

Researchers including a Johns Hopkins University evolutionary biologist report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct ...

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

Terror birds were apex predators some 12 million years ago in South America. A newly published discovery could be the largest yet.