Up to 50 percent of species—which included 12 bird species and 4 frog species—on Aotearoa’s North Island went extinct before ...

A new dinosaur species discovered in Mongolia is making paleontologists rethink what they thought they knew about dino hands. This feathered creature, named Duonychus tsogtbaatari, had only two ...

A newly identified tiny dinosaur, Foskeia pelendonum, is shaking up long-held ideas about how plant-eating dinosaurs evolved. Though fully grown adults were remarkably small and lightweight, their ...

Yi qi is one of the strangest dinosaurs ever found, a small Jurassic creature from China that appears to have wing structures unlike anything seen in other dinosaurs. Fossils reveal an eerie ...

One of Earth’s first birds had modern bird-like mouth features that evolved to handle food efficiently and meet the energy ...

More than 60 years ago, Bruce Runnegar was visiting Petrie’s Quarry in Brisbane with school friends when he discovered a ...

Fossilized vomit reveals a surprise flying pterosaur in Brazil, offering new insight into how ancient reptiles lived and fed ...

Scientists uncover 97-million-year-old magnetic fossils that may represent Earth’s earliest GPS, revealing how ancient ...

In the first of a new series, curator Dr Neil Adams shares the stories and science of the fossil mammal collection.

New pieces have been added to the puzzle of the evolution of some of the oldest fish that lived on Earth more than 400 million years ago. In two separate studies, experts in Australia and China have ...

Time stands still inside the Colorado Antique Gallery in Littleton, where everyday shoppers transform into explorers and ...

It was a bonnie morning 410 million years ago in what are now the Rhynie chert fossil beds in Scotland. The mists had begun ...