Palaeontology: Horned dinosaurs were there, but misidentified

New study forces palaeontology to rethink For a long time, Europe was considered a blind [...]

High tech for a prehistoric animal: new tusks for the Darmstadt mastodon

Darmstadt: There is a concentrated silence in the entrance area of the Earth and Life [...]

Feathers instead of scales: Why the dinosaurs look different in the new Tomb Raider remake

When Tomb Raider was released in 1996, the prehistoric enemies seemed out of place: angular [...]

Palaeontology: Discovery of hundreds of metres of dinosaur tracks in Italy

A spectacular find high above sea level is currently causing a stir in palaeontology: Italian [...]

More than 20,000 sea urchins for science

Doctor donates unique collection to the University of Bonn. For decades, Dr Hans-Volker Thiel has [...]

Unlucky creature of the Cretaceous period: prehistoric sparrow suffocated under 800 stones

CHICAGO/BEIJING. A 120-million-year-old bird fossil from the dinosaur era reveals not only a new species, [...]

Researchers discover a ‘prehistoric motorway’ for dinosaurs in Bolivia

Palaeontologists have made an extraordinary discovery in Bolivia’s Torotoro National Park: more than 18,000 fossilised [...]

Long-standing dispute settled: Spinosaurus was a true aquatic predator

Whether an extinct animal lived on land or in water is often surprisingly difficult for [...]

Palaeontology: Schoolboy in the USA discovers 150-million-year-old dinosaur fossil

For many young fossil enthusiasts, it remains a dream, but for Aidan Connor, it became [...]

Dinosaur strangulation marks lead to spectacular discovery

What sounds like a bizarre discovery today has turned out to be a scientific stroke [...]