The Isle of Wight is one of the most famous places in Europe for discovering dinosaur fossils. Known as “Dinosaur Island”, ...

The Early Cretaceous period witnessed a remarkable diversity of gnetalean plants, with fossil discoveries shedding new light on the morphology, ecology and evolutionary history of this enigmatic group ...

A 1-centimetre fossil from the Gobi Desert reveals a tiny mammal that lived with dinosaurs, but how did such a fragile ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Southern Africa is world renowned for its fossil record of creatures that lived in the very distant past, including dinosaurs. But ...

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New research has revealed that the diets of early lizards and snakes, which lived alongside dinosaurs around 100 million years ago, were more varied and advanced than previously thought. Trapped in ...

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Fungi bursts from the head of a fly fossilized in 99-million-year-old amber. © Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, NIGPAS In ...