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  Not a Sabre-Tooth Tiger - A Sabre-Tooth Cat Instead

A Confusing Name - The Sabre-Tooth Tiger

In episode three of Primeval (ITV1) being shown tomorrow (26th January) a Sabre-Tooth cat makes its debut on the show.  It is seen ...   more »

View Article  Trying to Trace the Dinosaur Family Tree

Dinosaur Evolution Poster - Tracing the Dinosaur Family Tree - A Tricky Business

Trying to organise Dinosauria into clades or family groups has kept many Palaeontologists burning the midnight oil.  ...   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  Review of Prehistoric Times - Issue 84 (Winter 2008)
Review of Prehistoric Times - Issue 84   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  Best Selling Prehistoric Animals of 2007/8
The top ten most popular/best selling Prehistoric Animals in the Everything Dinosaur survey.   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  Colour Variations on Dinosaur Models - Dilophosaurus

New Dilophosaurus Scale Model -  a Bright Red Dinosaur

An important decision that has to be taken by every prehistoric animal model manufacturer is what colour to paint their models.  ...   more »