Some of these giant vegetarians were as tall as a 3-story building. Microscopic analysis of their teeth, bones and eggshells reveals how they grew, what they ate and even their body temperature.
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The mission provided details about how to deflect an asteroid should one threaten Earth in future.
Fossils suggest that as many as three abelisaurid species coexisted in Morocco around 66 million years ago.
The Isle of Skye has a rich palaeontological heritage, so perhaps it’s no surprise scientists made an important discovery there.
Rather than a juvenile of a known species, several fossilized bones represent a new species – and shed light on the question of whether dinosaurs were already in decline before disaster struck.
Some time between 1100 and 1700 AD, a Massospondylus bone was discovered and carried to a rock shelter in Lesotho.
Elephants can be viewed as geological engineers that create minor tectonic forces on the substrate they walk on.
Our mammal ancestors evolved to compete with dinosaurs but may have lost something in the process.
Impress your niece or nephew with these T rex facts.
New laboratory experiments add analytical rigour to the search for ancient biomolecules
Small holes in baby dinosaur bones add to the growing mass of evidence that the ancient creatures were warm-blooded and highly active.
The fossil record tells conflicting stories about what happened to flowering plants after the asteroid.
Some footprints last thousands or even millions of years, preserved in sand that turned to rock.
Our experts have you covered with recommendations of what to see this summer.
Fossilised tracks of a group of plant-eating dinosaurs have been found in Lesotho’s Roma Valley for the first time.
Jurassic Park was a technological breakthrough for film because of its use of CGI. It also revived an interest in paleontology and raised ethical questions about DNA use.
New research shows that placental mammals survived the mass extinction that killed the
dinosaurs.
Rhyddhawyd Jurassic Park ar y sgrin fawr ym mis Mehefin 1993 a newidiodd sinema am byth.
Jurassic Park was released on the big screen in June 1993 and changed cinema for good.
In the dinosaur era, flying reptiles soared in the skies of what is now Australia – but we have barely any fossil records of them.
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Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of Bristol
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Chancellor's Fellow in Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of Edinburgh
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Emeritus Strategic Professor in Palaeontology, Flinders University
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Senior Research Scientist, South Australian Museum; Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer in Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Life Sciences at the University of Bath, University of Bath
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Associate professor in Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Associate, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University
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Senior lecturer, University of New England
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Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University
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Palaeontologist, Earth Science Faculty, University of New England
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Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at the Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath
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Researcher and curator, Jurassica Museum