Scientists confirm CT scanning doesn't interfere with natural decomposition processes, opening new windows into understanding how fossils form.

Fossil footprints found in Victoria by amateur palaeontologists have pushed back our understanding of when an early relative ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...

A new discovery is rewriting the history of evolution by millions of years - The emergence of the first land-dwelling animals ...

A new study published in Palaeontology has confirmed that X-ray computed tomography (XCT scanning) can be used to monitor ...

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was ...

Fossilization favors larger, protein-rich animals because they create oxygen-poor conditions that slow decay, helping explain ...

Palaeontologist Sarah Gabbott explains what’s so unusual about her discovery, which she named as part of the process of describing it scientifically. The fossil is about 50cm long and has 46 almost ...

Most people picture the time of dinosaurs as a steamy, tropical world. But during the Late Cretaceous period, northern Alaska ...

questions some of the methodologies used to construct the new family tree but notes that the new placement makes sense as Deinosuchus fossils show an array of traits seen in alligators and ...

Yet in South America, fierce crocs known as sebecids fought for dominance. New fossils suggest they lived longer than thought, hiding in the Caribbean. These crocs were powerful hunters with ...

This lineage of terrestrial crocs, called sebecids, lasted longer than previously believed, according to researchers who described fossils recently unearthed in the Dominican Republic that reveal ...