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Fossil shark teeth are abundant and can date the past in a unique way

The ratios of strontium isotopes in fossil shark teeth can be used to better understand how coastal environments evolved in ancient times, according to...

Huge dinosaur footprints found in Mongolia – Could they belong to a giant Saurolophus?

A team of researchers from Okayama University of Science (OUS) in Japan and the Institute of Paleontology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences has discovered some...

Scientists find collagen in dinosaur fossil, unlocking new clues about ancient life

For many years, scientists believed that organic molecules could not survive in fossils, as the fossilization process was thought to destroy them completely. However, a...

Did dinosaurs first roam the Amazon? New study offers clues

equatorial regions of South America and Africa, including the Amazon, millions of years earlier than current fossil evidence shows. This new research, led by University...

How we uncovered the UK’s biggest site of dinosaur tracks in a quarry in...

In 2024, researchers from the universities of Oxford and Birmingham excavated a huge expanse of a quarry floor in Oxfordshire filled with hundreds of...

Scientists rediscover rare fossil of giant bird, unveiling secrets of prehistoric life

Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6-foot-tall (1.4 meters) bird called Diatryma roamed a warm, tropical swamp in what is now southern Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. This...

Scientists identify a new dinosaur species from destroyed fossil photos

Paleontologists have made an incredible discovery of a new species of predatory dinosaur that lived 95 million years ago in North Africa during the...

Scientists uncover ancient dinosaur highway in Britain

A remarkable new discovery has uncovered hundreds of dinosaur footprints in an ancient "dinosaur highway" in Oxfordshire, dating back 166 million years to the...

Discovery of rare new fossil sheds light on New Zealand’s extinct dolphin-like reptiles

Ichthyosaurs were reptiles that swam in the seas during the time of the dinosaurs. They evolved separately around 250 million years ago, possibly from a...

How a giant prehistoric elephant skull helped untangle an evolutionary mystery

About 400,000 years ago, early humans in Europe, Asia and Africa lived alongside giant straight-tusked elephants, far bigger than their modern-day cousins. Their evolution has...