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Biggest find of Triceratops fossils proves they were social dinosaurs
A haul of 1,200 bones and bone fragments of at least 5 Triceratops horridus individuals has...
Fossil of largest ever river dolphin found in Amazon
Researchers have found the fossilised skull of the largest ever river dolphin. While found in the...
270-million-year-old amphibian named after Kermit the Frog
An ancient amphibian ancestor found in Texas has been named Kermitops gratus in honour of iconic...
Fossil of a giant freshwater turtle found in the Brazilian Amazon
Fossilised remains of a giant freshwater turtle which lived between 40,000 and 9,000 years ago have...
390-million-year-old fossil forest found in England is the oldest in the world
Fossilised trees found in southwest England form the earliest known forest on Earth. The find highlights...
Mammal ancestors evolved a killer instinct to deal with larger, faster prey
Before dinosaurs, ancestors of mammals were the top predators. Research suggests these first large land carnivores...
3D tree fossil from 350 million years ago “unlike any alive today”
A 352-million-year-old tree fossil has been discovered in Canada which resembles nothing that we have ever...
“Chicken from hell” dinosaur discovered by researcher who bought fossil online
A PhD student bought dinosaur fossils online for a class project and ended up discovering and...
Dinosaur footprints add to Thailand’s rich fossil record
A collection of fossilised dinosaur tracks have been discovered in Thailand. The footprints are 220-225 million...
Closest dinosaur relative to T-rex may just have been found
A giant new tyrannosaur species has been discovered in the southern US which may be the...
Hortus Eystettensis: The Beautifully Illustrated Book of Plants That Changed Botanical Art Overnight (1613)
If you made it big in seventeenth-century Bavaria, you showed it by creating a garden with...
Mistaken identity? Scientists say this dinosaur isn’t T-rex
Fossils believed to be juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex actually belong to a different species, first named more...
Ant or bee? T. rex or Minmi as a dino pet? Real questions
Cosmos asked the tough questions in its Would you rather? podcast series. Among them was would...
Oldest known fossils of the Frankincense plant family
An unsolved mystery puzzling the world of paleobotany since the 1970s has been solved. Researchers determined...
Mysterious bird-like tracks in Africa: The oldest birds?
Fossil tracks found in southern Africa, push the potential evolution of the first birds back to...