Dinosaur wings seem to have originally been used not to fly but to attract a mate.
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Could new populations of seals and porpoises attract the descendants of some of the large shark species that were thriving in this region 4-5 million years ago?
The case of a ‘fishy pterosaur’ is the latest example of mistaken identity involving these extraordinary flying reptiles.
New research from Morocco shows that ankylosaurs evolved much earlier than originally thought. Their iconic tail also had a dual function.
More fossil tracks of vertebrates have come to light on the South African coast, adding to the picture of an ancient plain full of wildlife.
More than a hundred years after it was found in Foul Air Cave in Victoria, the fossil is granting us new insights into deep time.
A detailed scan of a fossil therapsid embryo reveals the oldest egg belonging to a mammalian ancestor.
Did Earth’s major diversification event really happen in one sudden explosion? Our fossil discovery suggests not.
The hunt for a mythicized fossil hot spot took a team of researchers on a journey through the Sahara Desert.
A tooth fragment found in the skull of a fossilized dinosaur sheds light on the Tyrannosaurus rex’s feeding habits.
The newly discovered fish fossil fills a key gap in our understanding of the evolution of vertebrate diversity.
The discovery points to a long evolutionary history in north Africa, much earlier than modern Homo sapiens.
The strange fossils were lost in museum collections around the world for some 50 years.
500 million years of fossils reveal how ‘escape routes’ along coastlines can decide who survives climate change.
Remains of an ancient Arctic rhino indicate that land mammals traversed the North Atlantic via land bridges, and did so much more recently than previously thought.
Dinosaur tracks from the Cretaceous period have been found in South Africa for only the second time.
A new way of analysing fossils has revealed more about animals and environments of ancient times, when humans were evolving.
Seashells are the skeletons of sea creatures – and they’re older than you might think.
Today, rock wallabies rarely stray far from the safety of their rocky shelters. But the fossil record tells a very different story.
We’re in a golden era for dinosaur science.
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Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University
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Associate professor in Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Emeritus Strategic Professor in Palaeontology, Flinders University
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Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of Bristol
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Senior Research Scientist, South Australian Museum; Flinders University
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Associate Professor in Vertebrate Palaeontology, Flinders University
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Honorary Research Associate, Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Associate in the College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University
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Research Associate, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University
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Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Leicester
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Technical Specialist in Earth Sciences, University of Bristol
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Professor in Geochronology and Geochemistry, Southern Cross 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 Ancient DNA, University of Otago
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Lecturer in the School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University