The Latest Breaking News on Paleontology

The Mirror get up close to a 19-strong troop of gorillas making real change in biodiverse Uganda - as one of the greatest conservation success stories of our time is celebrated

Specimen collected in 1950s pushes back origins of squamates by at least 34m years

Research suggests dinosaur had long neck similar to modern water birds like geese

Research suggests dinosaur had long neck similar to modern water birds like geese

3.4 billion years ago, an unnervingly familiar cataclysm struck Mars.

Before the new study the location of the crater caused by the impact was unclear.

A little over a year ago we reported on a large area at the foot of the Asperillo cliff, on the coast of the Doñana Natural Area in Huelva, Spain. There, along with numerous animal footprints, other footprints had been found – those of hominids.

Dating back more than 65m years, specimen’s mobile palate challenges understanding of avian evolution

Each of the roughly 11,000 species of birds on Earth today is classified into one of two groups, based on the arrangement of their palate bones.

The skeleton of ‘Barbara’, a pregnant and injured tyrannosaurus, raises a shocking possibility: that these dinosaurs had a touchy-feely side

Scientists have speculated for years that the world is coming up on its sixth mass extinction, when a majority of the Earth’s creatures become extinct. But a couple of Virginia Tech researchers are studying what happened in the first extinction in hopes of avoiding another.