DURING the past sixty years, American palæontologists have taken a very large share in adding to our knowledge of fossil mammals. They have not only made remarkable discoveries on their own ...
Palaeontologists in Victoria have identified a trio of ancient meat-eating dinosaurs that terrorised Southern Gondwana, ...
Palaeontologists generally agree that Spinosaurus was a fish-eating dinosaur. However, there has been ongoing debate about its lifestyle and hunting methods. Some studies propose that these ...
Lomax, from the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, explains: “As we have such a large, complete sample size, which is relatively unique among such fossil vertebrates, our study can help ...
It’s fun to conceptualise like this, and set the human story within the grand perspective of Earth’s history. But there’s a ...
The short-tailed find with the forelimb of a raptor is an extremely rare example of the transition from dinosaurs to birds.
Palaeontologists - the scientists that study extinct life - have a surprising array of tools for examining the fossilised remains of animals and plants to determine how they might have appeared and ...
For palaeontologists in the field, few techniques have changed much since the early days of dinosaur hunting. Many of us associate science with high-tech undertakings. But when it comes to digging up ...
The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology's 85th Annual Meeting will come to Birmingham conference centre in November ...
Three-dimensional imaging has become an essential tool for Australian palaeontologists to more accurately analyse and ...