Palaeontologists have pieced together the brain structure of a bird that lived 80 million years ago named Navaornis hestiae, ...

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.

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

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

The Cosmic Shambles Network has announced the return of Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People, Robin Ince’s iconic ...

Atmospheric carbon dioxide was high in the Cretaceous, making the world in general a warmer place. Moreover, the lack of an ...

In northern Tajikistan, in the Sughd region, scientists have uncovered a dinosaur bone estimated to be 85 million years old.

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

Umid Nabiev, a participant in the expedition, is notably the only person in Tajikistan currently studying palaeontology. He ...

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