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Fossils

August 2024

  • A fossil seen from the dorsal (top) side (left) with spines covering the body (right).

    Love child of slug and hedgehog: fossils may shed light on early mollusc ancestors

    Rare specimens found in China from 514m years ago thought to be remains of proto-mollusc

July 2024

  • A Just Stop Oil protest on an overhead gantry of the M25 near London in November 2022.

    Was the jailing of Just Stop Oil protesters fair?

  • National Museums Scotland's Dr Elsa Panciroli with enlarged, 3D printed models of krusatodon kirtlingtonesis skeletons. Photo (c) Duncan Mc Glynn (1) fossil rodent thing

    Early mammal could help answer one of biology’s biggest question, say experts

  • A Stegosaurus skeleton on display, with a man leaning in to photograph it

    Largest, most intact stegosaurus fossil ever found sells for $44.6m

  • An artist's impression of a Comptonatus chasei

    Dinosaur unearthed on Isle of Wight identified as new plant-eating species

  • Fangs and toilet seat-shaped head: giant salamander-like fossil found in Namibia

  • The Great British Seaside
    The fossil finder: one man’s lifelong search for fragments of Britain’s Jurassic past – photo essay

June 2024

  • Lucy, the 3.2 million-year-old skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis female, on display at the National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa.

    Fifty years on, how Lucy, the mother of humanity, changed our understanding of evolution

  • A griffin

    Rewriting the myth: experts doubt griffin was inspired by dinosaurs

  • dinosaur skull in glass case

    Dinosaur with ‘blade-like nasal horns’ dug up in Montana may be new species

  • Curtin University's Adele Pentland holds part of the fossilised remains of flying reptile, described as a 'demonic pelican'

    ‘Demonic pelican’ fossil unearthed in outback Queensland

  • Big bones: Victoria the ‘simply terrifying’ T rex arrives at Melbourne Museum

  • The super-rich are buying up dinosaur bones – and now they want our near-perfect Stegosaurus

    David Hone

  • Smallest known great ape, which lived 11m years ago, found in Germany

  • Three boys left ‘completely speechless’ after finding T rex bone in North Dakota

  • Play time
    The Colour of Dinosaurs review – fascinating family show with raptor-ous revelations

  • ‘Curiosity’ fuels world’s most prolific fossilized poop collector

May 2024

  • A person stands beneath the neck of a stegosaurus dinosaur fossil.

    ‘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’
  • An artist’s impression of Australia’s age of monotremes, with the ‘echidnapus’ at bottom right

    ‘Enormously exciting’ fossils found in NSW opal field suggest Australia had ‘age of monotremes’

    Discovery of ‘echidnapus’ and two more species show the furry egg-layers predated marsupials
  • Remnants of prehistoric worm Radnorscolex latus, unearthed in Herefordshire

    Remnants of prehistoric marine worm unearthed in Herefordshire

    Carnivorous predator Radnorscolex latus existed 425m years ago and caught prey with its retractable throat
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