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Palaeontology

July 2024

  • 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

    Krusatodon kirtlingtonensis, which lived 166m years ago, ‘a piece of the puzzle’ explaining mammals’ success
  • Scientists take a sample from the mammoth carcass

    Mulleted mammoth called Chris Waddle helps scientists crack creatures’ genetic code

    Researchers build genome using 52,000-year-old remains of woolly mammoth named after ex-England footballer

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

    • Modern-day dingoes already established across Australia thousands of years ago, research finds

    • 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

    In 1974, the fossilised bones of Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old hominin, were discovered in Ethiopia. How has this remarkable skeleton disproved a Darwinian theory – and what links her to the Beatles?
  • A mammoth tusk in a riverbed

    Freak event probably killed last woolly mammoths, scientists say

    Study shows population on Arctic island was stable until sudden demise, countering theory of ‘genomic meltdown’

    • ‘Demonic pelican’ fossil unearthed in outback Queensland

    • 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

May 2024

  • 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

April 2024

  • An artist's reconstruction of the short-faced kangaroo

    ‘Unlike anything today’: Gippsland fossil unlocks secrets of kangaroo that died out 46,000 years ago

    Abrupt extinction of short-faced kangaroo a reminder to protect the environment, palaeontologists say
  • Palaeontologist Dr Dean Lomax (left) with Ruby and Justin Reynolds and Paul de la Salle (right)

    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
  • A woman holds up a slide with a dinosaur bone fossil in it

    The age of extinction
    Dinosaur data: can the bones of the deep past help predict extinctions of the future?

    Millions of years ago, animals adapted to become warm-blooded amid huge climactic changes. Now scientists hope these clues from the past could help us understand what lies ahead

March 2024

  • Researchers Calvin So and Arjan Mann with the Kermitops fossil and its namesake, Kermit the Frog.

    Scientists name newly discovered ancient amphibian species after Kermit the Frog

  • Composite picture of a photo of a man using a scalpel to pick at a huge crocodile-like skull, and a drawing of adolphin in brown water seizing prey

    The age of extinction
    Scientists find skull of enormous ancient dolphin in Amazon

  • Fossilised stump

    World’s oldest fossilised trees discovered along Devon and Somerset coast

  • A reconstruction of the newly discovered mosasaur Khinjaria acuta.

    Pass notes
    Huge, bitey, freakishly ugly: is this the world’s nastiest prehistoric reptile?

February 2024

  • Carving of a fossilised lizard-like creature

    Terrawatch
    The 280m-year-old fossil reptile that turned out to be a forgery

    Modern imaging techniques reveal item thought to be well preserved lizard-like fossil is painted carving

December 2023

  • David Attenborough, in a short-sleeved shirt, looks up as he stands in front of a gigantic restored pliosaur skull

    David Attenborough film tells of risky mission to excavate ‘T rex of the seas’ from Dorset cliff

    BBC documentary uses cutting-edge science and visual effects to show how details about the Jurassic pliosaur came to light
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