First, dinosaur tracks aged around 140 million years were reported in 2025 on a remote stretch of the coast in South Africa’s ...

University of Queensland research has confirmed Brisbane's only dinosaur fossil is Australia's oldest, dating back to the ...

How did soft-bodied organisms remain intact for millions of years?

First, dinosaur tracks aged around 140 million years were reported in 2025 on a remote stretch of the coast in South Africa ...

The study, published in the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, used data from fossils laid down 150 million years ago in the Morrison Formation*, in the United States, to map o ...

Southern Africa is world renowned for its fossil record of creatures that lived in the very distant past, including dinosaurs. But, about 182 million years ago, a huge eruption of lava covered much of ...

Paleontologists led by Cassius Morrison of the University College London used data from the Morrison Formation to assemble a ...

Despite growing into the largest animals ever to walk on land, sauropods began life small, exposed, and alone. Fossil ...

A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the fossil record is formed. They investigated how dinosaur and mammal bones are ...

The Djadochta Formation in Mongolia is one of the world’s most famous dinosaur fossil sites. Its remarkably preserved remains suggest rapid burial events, yet the exact conditions are still debated.

"This is the first time that amphibian track fossils have been discovered and scientifically described in Jurassic strata in China and across Asia," Xing said. Previously, records of Jurassic ...

A new way of analysing fossils has revealed more about animals and environments of ancient times, when humans were evolving.