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The dinosaur's face lift has become the butt of online jokes among palaeontology fans, but researchers say it is the most ...

A museum is raising money to buy a fragment of a letter written by palaeontologist Mary Anning in which she says she is "sick" of fossils. Anning's discoveries in the early 19th Century helped shape ...

The T-Rex is a popular Jurassic World character. Alamy But how accurate is the film’s portrayal of dinosaurs? In the opening scenes, we are reintroduced to world-renowned palaeontologist Alan Grant, ...

Palaeontologist have excavated the 2-metre-long skull of an ancient terrifying marine carnivore known as a Pliosaur from a cliffside on the Jurassic Coast in southern England, and one of the fossil ...

Dinosaurs have been stars in Hollywood since the earliest days of cinema, captivating audiences throughout. But just how accurate are these portrayals, especially given what we now understand about ...

A palaeontologist stumbled on more than he expected while exploring a water cave in Texas in 2023. Although he was looking for fossils in a subterranean stream, he didn't anticipate discovering a ...

Ornella Bertrand's research on the brain evolution of mammals involves developing 3D models of an endocast. Here she holds an endocast for a mountain beaver. Palaeontologist Uses 3D Models to Explore ...

Flinders University palaeontology researcher Isaac Kerr with an Australian kangaroo jaw bone, and an Australian megafauna fossil jaw used in the latest Royal Society study. Disclaimer: AAAS and ...