Komodo dragons have iron-coated teeth, scientists find
Largest, most intact stegosaurus fossil ever found sells for $44.6m
‘You travel five million years a metre’: inside the Natural History Museum’s mind-boggling new garden
Dinosaur unearthed on Isle of Wight identified as new plant-eating species
June 2024
Rewriting the myth: experts doubt griffin was inspired by dinosaurs
Dinosaur with ‘blade-like nasal horns’ dug up in Montana may be new species
‘Demonic pelican’ fossil unearthed in outback Queensland
Big bones: Victoria the ‘simply terrifying’ T rex arrives at Melbourne Museum
A T rex has arrived in Melbourne, but how did it get here without breaking a bone? - video
The super-rich are buying up dinosaur bones – and now they want our near-perfect Stegosaurus
David Hone
Three boys left ‘completely speechless’ after finding T rex bone in North Dakota
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The Colour of Dinosaurs review – fascinating family show with raptor-ous revelations
‘Curiosity’ fuels world’s most prolific fossilized poop collector
May 2024
‘Virtually complete’ Stegosaurus fossil to be auctioned at Sotheby’s geek week
The 11ft and tall and 20ft long fossil, nicknamed Apex, could fetch up to $6m as it’s celebrated as ‘one of the best unearthed’
April 2024
Fossils found in Somerset by girl, 11, ‘may be of largest-ever marine reptile’
Experts believe remains belong to a type of ichthyosaur that roamed the seas about 202m years ago
March 2024
Impossible Monsters by Michael Taylor review – fossil feuds
A marvellous history of science vs creationism in Victorian Britain
I discovered …
I discovered thousands of fossils after retiring. Now I’m nearly 80 and still going strong
I’ve built up a collection from a beach in Weymouth that could help to establish what biodiversity in the UK was like over the course of millions of years
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Huge, bitey, freakishly ugly: is this the world’s nastiest prehistoric reptile?
Khinjaria acuta was bigger than a great white shark, with blade-like teeth and awesome jaws. Just as well it died out 67m years ago
January 2024
Scientists use robot dinosaur in effort to explain origins of birds’ plumage
BBC amends Attenborough show to give fossil hunter more credit for pliosaur find
