1+ hour, 15+ min ago  (1078+ words) To learn about dinosaurs, palaeontology, and the ancient natural history of Earth and to consider the evolution of life on our planet and how fossils help us to understand the history of dinosaurs. Dinosaur Day is celebrated on 1 June every…...

3+ week, 9+ hour ago  (356+ words) This is what artists think the extinct giant octopus might have looked like New research suggests that 100 million years ago giant octopuses could have be found in the oceans - likely around at the same time dinosaurs roamed the earth. Scientists…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (521+ words) This rare croc fossil is a piece of jawbone, and the circles are where the croc's teeth would be Imagine going on holiday to the beach and finding a rare 200-million-year-old fossil? ! Well, that's exactly what happened to Heather Salt,…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (555+ words) In films, TV and stories, the Tyrannosaurus rex is often shown as a powerful, but not very bright dinosaur. Now, scientists are asking a new question: could they have been smarter than we think? Researchers are studying modern birds to…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (602+ words) The historical jawbones are on public display at a community garden in Grimsby The jawbones of a whale that died in the Humber in 1892 are back on public display. Originally from a 76-tonne Rorqual, they were used as an arch…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (290+ words) Check out this 'mammoth' find from seven-year-old Nina. She found this chunk of bone on a beach in east Suffolk while she was out hunting for shark teeth with her dad and brother. Experts say it could be between 100, 000 and…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (749+ words) A fragment of a letter written by palaeontologist Mary Anning in which she says she is "sick" of fossils has sold for more than "15, 000 at auction. Anning's discoveries in the early 19th Century helped shape scientific understanding of prehistoric life but…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (426+ words) These are the bones of a woolly mammoth with the nickname Myfanwy. They were originally found in 1864, donated to the Natural History Museum and have been on display at the Holyhead Maritime museum since 2006. But for the first time, scientists…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (977+ words) By comparing tooth wear with modern elephants, researchers estimate the mammoth was about 32 years old when it died A woolly mammoth nicknamed Myfanwy roamed Anglesey 15, 000 years ago, radiocarbon dating has revealed. Scientists believe the animal was about 32 years old when…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (569+ words) An artist's impression shows a small Cretaceous Period dinosaur named Alnashetri cerropoliciensis that lived about 95 million years ago in the Patagonia region of Argentina About 95 million years ago in Argentina's Patagonia region of South America, giant dinosaurs ruled the land....