The Latest Breaking News on Paleontology

You know what? Jurassic Park: Dominion would have made a great novel. Really! Here's why it didn't land as a movie, but is still worth revisiting for the subplots.

Extinction is inevitable. Expected. Almost all (99%) species that have ever existed have died out. Those disappearances have largely occurred at consistent background rates. But in the context of mass extinctions, ecosystems are placed under immense pressure, at above-average speeds. Here, the language changes from the commonplace to the exceptional.

Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzes

New study offers evidence of prehistoric animal movement between Australia and South America via Antarctica

Study explains how seeds and fruits eventually became large food sources

The species, known as Bastetodon and named for an Egyptian goddess, had sharp teeth and an incredibly powerful grip

French customs officers seized nine dinosaur teeth last month from a courier truck transiting through the country from Spain on its way to Italy, they said on Friday.

Environmental advocates are calling for the United Nations to save an endangered dinosaur fish as a farming ban is under consideration.

How might you make your mark on the world forever? Write a play more timeless than Shakespeare, or compose music to out-do Mozart, or score the winning goal in the next World Cup final, perhaps?

This story about a child with cerebral palsy is badly misleading – and a slap in the face for families like ours, says Archie Bland, editor of the Guardian’s First Edition, and Ruth Spencer, a former editor at Guardian US

Demographic expansion after Last Glacial Maximum may have led to conflicts