4+ hour, 28+ min ago  (268+ words) A rare dinosaur fossil, a tail bone from a long-necked, plant-eating titanosaur, has been identified after languishing for decades in a drawer. The specimen, whose species remains unknown, offers a glimpse into Antarctica's ancient past. The bone was initially unearthed…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (380+ words) A remarkable fossil unearthed in Africa is rewriting the story of dinosaur origins. The 225-million-year-old leg bone, belonging to a little-known group of reptiles called silesaurs, challenges long-held beliefs about the size of the very first dinosaurs " or their closest…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (263+ words) A 300-million-year-old fossil, once celebrated as the world's oldest octopus, has been stripped of its title after new scientific research revealed it is, in fact, a relative of the nautilus. The creature, Pohlsepia mazonensis, previously listed by Guinness World Records…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (605+ words) A Dunblane man who had spent five years searching for a rare paperback has described his "complete disbelief" after a copy turned up in his local Oxfam bookshop. Paul Dixon, 66, had been looking for a book called Iona Celtic Art:…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (889+ words) We know dinosaurs were around 99 million years ago, but now new research has identified a kind of parasitic wasp that was flying around back then (and which has a strange way of catching its prey). The species now called Sirenobethylus…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (380+ words) A remarkable fossil unearthed in Africa is rewriting the story of dinosaur origins. The 225-million-year-old leg bone, belonging to a little-known group of reptiles called silesaurs, challenges long-held beliefs about the size of the very first dinosaurs " or their closest…...