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Colourful illustrations by Peter Trusler depict 500m-year-old fossils of creatures from the Palaeozoic and inspire Australia Post

Relative of modern alligators is known to have fed on a diet of dinosaurs

Researchers have found some of the biggest dinosaur footprints ever. They are so huge that an adult could curl up inside one without a problem. It’s wild to imagine, honestly. This kind of find really turns our old ideas about prehistoric life on its head.

You never really expect to stumble across dinosaur bones while fixing up a parking lot, but that’s exactly what happened at Dinosaur National Monument, on the border of Colorado and Utah. Workers were just doing some routine upgrades near the Quarry Exhibit Hall when they hit a layer of sandstone…

A brief period of low tide along a tranquil coastline in eastern England revealed an uncommon sight in Europe. A series of human footprints emerged on a Norfolk beach, momentarily exposed by shifting sands and pressed into ancient mud. The impressions were fleeting and fragile, yet they were sufficiently distinct…

Quiet remains of far earlier worlds can be found on cliffs in some of southern Africa's harshest regions. Signs of changing climates and gradual geological stress are frequently preserved in marble and limestone formations, which were developed long before the deserts of today. The majority of markings align with established…

Teachers who attended ‘compulsory’ creationist conference run by US-based fundamentalist group told radiometric dating techniques were flawed

The monument came under threat during the previous Trump administration

The late Black Sabbath frontman is now the subject of a dinosaur-themed tribute