The Latest Breaking News on Paleontology

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

Plying the subtropical seas that washed the coasts of the archipelago that made up Europe 83 million years ago was one of the largest turtles on record, a reptile the size of a small car - a Mini Cooper to be precise - that braved dangerous waters.

Measuring nearly four metres in length, the species is thought to be the largest in Europe.

Aurochs were wiped out in the 17th century, but a skull has now been found on Blyth Beach in Northumberland.

New research revealed a creature millions of years ago was among the earliest examples of dinosaurs evolving into birds

Do bones and teeth found in Sussex share characteristics with Neanderthal fossils from northern Spain?

The past can inform the present in more ways than one.