A surprising fossil find shows that some mosasaurs lived in ancient rivers as oceans changed near the end of the Cretaceous.

Thousands of dinosaur footprints, stretching for kilometres, have been uncovered on a near-vertical rock face in Italy's ...

Giant mosasaurs, once thought to be strictly ocean-dwelling predators, may have spent their final chapter prowling freshwater ...

Over the last 12 months our scientists have been busy cataloguing the extraordinary diversity of life on Earth.

Sharjah: Step into Sharjah 's newly inscribed UNESCO World Heritage Site and you are not just walking through desert wadis ...

A golden era in dinosaur science is driving this fascination with dinosaurs. Around 1,400 dinosaur species are now known from ...

A fossil reveals the existence of Athenar bermani, a new sauropod that redefines the family tree of Utah's giants.

More recently, I discovered the accompanying footage, which shows a Mabamba Swamp shoebill stalking, striking and gobbling a snake as though it were a mere worm. The footage was shared in September by ...

For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the ...

A one-eyed flightless parrot has had an early Christmas present with a new aviary at a Shropshire zoo. Monica the Africa grey ...

A new international study reveals that Morocco’s remote Oudiksou Basin holds one of Africa’s best-preserved records of the ...

Researchers used a particle accelerator the size of a stadium in order to gain this unprecedented look inside these ...