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New research indicates that famine and exposure to infectious disease best explains the evolution of our ability to consume milk.

Teeth belonging to a long-necked, 20-tonne Diamantinasaurus have been unearthed in the outback, changing what experts know about the massive dinosaur.

Almost 30 years after Jurassic Park first screened, the beloved franchise is back with its latest film Jurassic World Dominion, released in the UK on Friday. Our favourite characters, such as the Tyrannosaurus-rex and Velociraptor, return and we meet some new ones, like the giant predator Giganotosaurus.

Steve Brusatte writes of the evolutionary twists, catastrophes and luck that led to the warm-blooded animals of today

Palaeontologists said they have found parts of the skeleton of the dinosaur, which lived during the Cretaceous Period

The renowned Apple Bay fossil locality of northern Vancouver Island is helping us reimagine seed plant diversity in the Early Cretaceous, the last of three geologic periods comprising the Mesozoic Era.

A permanent virtual exhibit of one of France’s most famous prehistoric sites, the undersea Cosquer Cave, is set to open its doors as concerns grow that it could be completely inundated as a result of rising tides driven by climate change. As of Saturday, visitors to the port city of…

In a new study, researchers used a relatively novel set of laser-based techniques to measure the metabolic rates of dinosaurs.

The 85ft-long plaster cast of a diplodocus skeleton was first put on display in the London museum in 1905.