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  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  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  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  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  Darwin on the "Imperfection of the Geological Record"

Darwin's Comments on the Geological Record

For Darwin, at the time of writing his groundbreaking study into evolution - "The Origin of Species", palaeontology and geology were relatively new sciences.  Amongst ...   more »

View Article  Diapsid Archosaurs out competed Synapsid Ancestor of Mammals Evidence in Alligator Breath

New Study Indicates Alligators Breathe Like Birds - Implications for the Rise of the Archosaurs

The greatest known extinction event took place some 250 million years ago, at the Permian/Triassic ...   more »

View Article  From the Water onto the Land only 35 million Years Earlier - Update

Tetrapods - Why bother coming onto the Land?

Following our publication of an article providing information on the recent discovery of Tetrapod trace fossils in a Polish quarry, we have ...   more »

View Article  New Theropod Fossil Provides Evidence of Dinosaur Diversification

Small Meat-Eating Dinosaur Points the way to Dinosaur Diversification

The discovery of a small, meat-eating dinosaur, fossilised in almost perfect bone preservation state is helping scientists to piece together the ...   more »

View Article  Dinosaur Dash - The Dinosaur Evolution Game

Dinosaur Dash Game - Can you be the first to Evolve?

Designed with the co-operation of those clever palaeontologists at the Natural History Museum in London, the Dinosaur Dash game ...   more »

View Article  Birth of a Dynasty - Earliest Ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex Described

CT scans Help Unlock Tyrannosaur Ancestry at Natural History Museum

When we are asked about the best place to find a new species of dinosaur, a answer we often give ...   more »

View Article  Terrible Tyrannosaurs Grew up Fighting

Evidence of Severe Facial Wound in Juvenile T. rex

Palaeontologists are aware of the tough lives of Tyrannosaurs as they have been able to describe and infer a number of ...   more »

View Article  Oldest Known Human-Like Ape Unveiled

Shedding Light on Human Ancestry - Ardipithecus ramidus

Older than Lucy, the famous Australopithecine found at Hadar (Ethiopia), a new ape-like creature has been unveiled by scientists from the University ...   more »

View Article  Parasitic Infection Linked to Tyrannosauridae

Parasitic Infection may be Responsible for Death of Tyrannosaurus "Sue"

A new study by US based scientists has put forward a theory explaining why some Tyrannosaurs may have died, they ...   more »

View Article  Raptorex A Tiny Dinosaur that was a Blueprint for T. rex

Raptorex - A Tiny Dinosaur with a Big Future (Upsets the Tyrannosaur Applecart)

A largely accepted theory concerning the peculiar body shape of Tyrannosaurs with their massive skulls, immense jaws ...   more »