Exploring Prehistoric Life
Palaeontologists have found a new species of pterosaur - the family of prehistoric flying reptiles that includes pterodactyl.
The evolutionary tale of birds is full of twists, turns and discoveries that continue to rewrite the history books. Paul Willis leads us through the maze.
New research suggests that soft-bodied organisms called Ediacarans may have been related to an animal of the Cambrian period...
Paleontologists have discovered what they say is a completely unexpected desert-dwelling pterosaur that lived in what is now Utah, the United States, about 210 million years ago. The discovery of this early pterosaur, ...
These strange life forms dominated Earth’s seas half a billion years ago, and scientists have long struggled to figure out whether they’re algae, fungi, or even an entirely different kingdom of life...
Citizen scientist Philip Mullaly and professional paleontologists have found a very rare set of fossilized shark teeth at Jan Juc, a renowned fossil site along Victoria’s Surf Coast.
A three-month-old horse that lived up to 40,000 years ago has been discovered in the mysterious Batagai depression in Russia’s Yakutia region, nicknamed the ‘Gateway to the Underworld.’
Sharks began evolving differently after the extinction of many dinosaurs, possibly caused by an asteroid strike about 66...
In particular the question mark was hovering over the skeletons of a strange, ancient fish family called heterostracan, but now UK scientists say they've cracked it, declaring the 400 million-year-old fossils to be the oldest examples of bone ever found....
A Middle Pleistocene cave bear, also known as the Deninger’s bear (Ursus deningeri...