The Latest Breaking News on Paleontology

Dinosaur-loving Kyle Lewis, five, from South Yorkshire, died in the arms of his parents days after he choked on a notice board pin an was rushed to hospita

One of the largest creatures to have walked the Earth is to become the Natural History Museum’s new star attraction

South Africa is famous for its amazingly rich and diverse fossil record. The country’s rocks document more than 3.5 billion years of life on Earth: ancient forms of bacterial life, the emergence of life onto land, the evolution of seed-producing plants, reptiles, dinosaurs and mammals – and humanity.

‘Specimen shows first case of intestinal preservation in a lineage very close to bird ancestry’

Earth can correct its climate over eons, scientists say; sadly, it doesn't work fast enough to stop climate change

A dwindling workforce and tricky legal territory is putting the world of fossil hunting on shaky ground.

The idea that correlation does not imply causation is a fundamental caveat in epidemiological research. A classic example involves a hypothetical link between ice cream sales and drownings – instead of increased ice cream consumption causing more people to drown, it’s plausible that a third variable, summer weather, is driving…

Developers were working on the site of a former residential unit on Church Bay Road, which is being demolished to make way for new homes when they discovered a bronze age village

Fossilised remains of the turtle were discovered in the Cal Torrades locality