11+ hour, 35+ min ago   (628+ words) A large footprint from a three-toed dinosaur Imagine finding a muddy footprint and trying to figure out which dinosaur made it. So where do you start? A team of scientists have come up with a new app that helps solve…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (391+ words) 'Get the measuring tape out Larry, I think I've grown again!' Have you ever wondered how long it took for the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex to reach it's full size? Well, now scientists think they might have worked out the answer!...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (255+ words) Dr. Jeremy McLarty with some of the footprints A record breaking number of fossilised dinosaur footprints have been counted by scientists at a national park in Bolivia. The research shows the area used to be an ancient coastline and swim…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (490+ words) If you aren't a big fan of snakes, then this story might not be for you - as it is all about one of the largest reptiles in the world. Anacoda snakes, found in tropical South America, are among the heaviest…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago   (178+ words) Meet the team behind Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age A new tv series is taking viewers back to the Ice Age. Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age is set millions of years after the dinosaurs became extinct and tells the stories of the…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago   (389+ words) Experts in America think they may have finally settled a big debate that has been going on for decades. Was a 67-million-year-old fossil, originally discovered around eighty years ago, a new Nanotyrannus species or a T. rex? Scientists believe that new…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (659+ words) Elaine Arthurs curated the museum's exhibition, which includes the newly-acquired fossil The backbone of the first stegosaur ever scientifically discovered will go on display at a new temporary fossil exhibition. Swindon Museum and Art Gallery acquired the fossilised vertebra earlier…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (587+ words) In the middle of the City of London, geologist Ruth Siddall is pointing at a greyish-brown shape, embedded in the stone of a building "and she is delighted. Ruth Siddall pointing at a special fossil find near St Paul's cathedral…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (534+ words) An artist impression of the flies clinging to the rock in a river bed An international team of scientists has made an exciting discovery in Australia - a fossilised insect that lived around 151 million years ago. The fly fossil, from the…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (261+ words) These footprints are insanely big," explains Emma Nicholls from Oxford University's Museum of Natural History. They're the massive footprints of a sauropod dinosaur; probably Cetiosaurus, which is a dinosaur that we know was found in this area." These were four-legged,…...