View Article  Stone Age Scousers - The Stone Age People of Liverpool

Archaeologists working on M62 Improvement Scheme find evidence of Stone Age Settlements

2008 may be the year that the city of Liverpool in northwest England celebrates its status as a ...   more »

View Article  Korea Bids to get Cretaceous Coast listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site

Cretaceous Coastline Submitted to UNESCO for World Heritage Status

It is not just the Chinese who have been finding dinosaur fossils over the last few years in Asia, the South ...   more »

View Article  The Claws of Smilodon - Sabre-Tooth Tree Climbers

Smilodon Claw Anatomy - Sabre-Tooths Great at Climbing but Rubbish at Descending

The Sabre-Tooth cats more appropriately termed Smilodons are one of the most enigmatic of prehistoric mammals from the ...   more »

View Article  Aussie Palaeontologist's Struggle to Keep up with Fossil Finds

Dinosaur Enthusiasts are Finding more Dig Sites than Museums can Handle

Those Australian dinosaur buffs are difficult to keep out of the headlines.  No sooner do we dedicate January 26th ...   more »

View Article  Geologists Get to the Bottom of the Chicxulub Impact Crater

Asteroid Impact at the Wrong Time and in the Wrong Place for the Dinosaurs

Research into the Chicxulub impact crater in Mexico, reveals the asteroid that hit the Earth 65 million years ago made a very big splash.

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View Article  Happy Australia Day! A Tribute to Australian Dinosaurs

January 26th - Australia Day A Tribute to Australian Prehistoric Animals

Australia Day is celebrated on January 26th each year.  It is a public holiday throughout the country as Australians ...   more »

View Article  Duck-billed Platypus and Duck-billed Dinosaurs side by side in the Cretaceous

The Duck-Billed Platypus - The oldest type of Mammal on the Planet?

The Platypus is a bizarre looking Australian mammal, one of the few monotremes left in the world - ...   more »

View Article  Human Kind Origins Traced to Fish - "Meet your next of Fin"

Scientists Trace Humans Fishy Origins

Neil Shubin, professor of Anatomy at Chicago University is due to publish a new book which explores the links between the osteology of humans and ...   more »

View Article  Dinosaur Colours and Camouflage

The Bright and Colourful Mesozoic

In the past, many scientists thought that dinosaurs were uniformly grey and drab, perhaps influenced by the relatively plain colouration of large land animals today ...   more »

View Article  Giant Fossil Rodent Discovered In Uruguay

"Mighty Mouse"or Perhaps more Accurately "Mighty Guinea Pig"

Hidden away in a dark corner of the storage vaults of the Natural History and Anthropology museum in Uruguay, lay the huge ...   more »

View Article  Research shows that Dinosaurs May have Grown Quickly but Died Young

The Life of a Dinosaur - Short and likely to end Unpleasantly

Although many scientists now believe that dinosaurs are closely related to birds there has been considerable debate about ...   more »

View Article  Armoured worm finally Reveals itself to Science

Complete Armoured Worm Fossil Found

Scientists have just published a paper on the finding of the complete fossil of a strange armoured worm...   more »

View Article  New Insights into Thecodontosaurus - Bristols very own Dinosaur

Study of Microfossils shows Thecodontosaurus to be an Inhabitant of Island Paradise

Research into the microscopic fossils from sediments similar to those where fossils of the early Jurassic Prosauropod Thecodontosaurus ...   more »

View Article  Cave Bears Definitely not Teddy Bears

New Research Reinforces Believe that Cave Bears were Omnivores

A new study into the feeding habits of Cave Bears indicates that many of them were not just gentle vegetarians snacking ...   more »

View Article  Looking inside a Dinosaur - Chinese Fossil provides Insight into Insides

Rare Find of Fossilised Dinosaur Skin

Scientists in China have discovered the fossilised remains of a Psittacosaur which shows the structure of its skin..

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