View Article  America's Oldest Artwork

Ancient Elephant Carved into Bone - Could be Three Times Older than Stone Henge

A small piece of fossilised animal bone, with a carving of a prehistoric elephant scratched onto ...   more »

View Article  Remembering Roy Chapman Andrews - Naturalist, Adventurer and Explorer

Roy Chapman Andrews 1884-1960

Today, March 11th marks the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Roy Chapman Andrews one of the most colourful and fascinating naturalists and museum scientists of ...   more »

View Article  "Egg-citing" News about DNA - Ancient DNA Extracted from Fossilsed Eggs

Fossilised Eggs Yield Ancient DNA

A team of scientists based at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia have successfully extracted DNA from fossilised eggshells.  This breakthrough in ancient DNA extraction ...   more »

View Article  Mass Extinction Event at end of Cretaceous was Caused by Extraterrestrial Impact

Dinosaurs Wiped out by Extraterrestrial Impact

An international panel of experts having reviewed the current evidence related to the Cretaceous mass extinction event have come down strongly on the side ...   more »

View Article  Dinosaurs Around 10 Million Years Earlier than Previously Thought

Fossil Evidence from Tanzania Provides New Insight into Dinosaur Evolution

The Triassic is regarded as a transitional period in the evolution of vertebrates, the end of the Permian mass extinction ...   more »

View Article  Baby Dinosaurs Attacked by Snake

Ancient Indian Constrictor Attacked Baby Sauropods

An adult Sauropod would have had few enemies, their sheer size and strength making them invulnerable to attack from all but the most determined ...   more »

View Article  Monster Crocodile a Predator of Early Hominids

Fear of Crocodiles an Ancient Human Trait

In the first episode of the BBC television series "Walking with Cavemen", the episode entitled "First Ancestors" an adult Australopithecus afarensis is taking a ...   more »

View Article  Evidence of a "Leedsichthys Legacy" Fossil Evidence Fills 100 million gap

Giant Bony Fish Swam in Prehistoric Seas

Darwin described the fossil record as being like individual words in a book when the rest of the sentence, the rest of the ...   more »

View Article  Dinosaur Dreaming Digs up Wallaby-Like Dinosaur

Annual Dinosaur Dreaming Event digs up Aussie Dinosaur that looked like a Wallaby

Wallabies a small kangaroo-like marsupial (family Macropodidae) are native to Australian, making up part of the unique ...   more »

View Article  Abydosaurus - Gives Sauropod Research a Head Start

Abydosaurus - Skull Material in mid Cretaceous Sauropoda

Sauropod skull material are a bit like London buses, you wait ages for one to turn up and then four come along ...   more »

View Article  Dwarf Dinosaurs on Dinosaur Island

Evidence of Dwarfism in Late Cretaceous Dinosaurs that lived on an Island

The Hungarian sceintist Franz Nopcsa, proposed a theory that if animals are marooned on an island, the limited ...   more »

View Article  Evidence for Aquatic Dinosaurs - Swimming Spinosaurs

Was Spinosaurus a Swimmer?  Watery Habitat for Largest Theropod

Scientists have found evidence of flying dinosaurs, there is evidence to suggest that some dinosaurs were at home in the trees, ...   more »

View Article  New Species of Sauropod as a Result of Excavation in Thailand

New Species of Late Jurassic Sauropod Unearthed in Thailand

The lush and extremely scenic southeast Asian country of Thailand may not be the first place that springs to mind when it ...   more »

View Article  Dinosaur Demise leads to our Fat Feathered Friends

Dinosaur Extinction Event led to Evolution of Flightless Birds

An abundance of food in conjunction with relatively few, large ground-dwelling predators led some types of bird to give up flying ...   more »

View Article  Happy Chinese New Year - The Year of the Tiger

The Chinese New Year - Year of the Tiger

The Chinese New Year, otherwise known as the lunar spring year started yesterday (February 14th).  As the Chinese traditional calendar is ...   more »