A dinosaur skeleton over 190 million years old was discovered in Portugal. It is one of the oldest finds of its kind in the ...

A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they were all greyish-brown ...

Scientists have unearthed a trove of fossilised dinosaur footprints at a school in rural Bananashire, in Queensland, ...

A team of scientists led by Australian Museum and UNSW Sydney palaeontologist, Dr Matthew McCurry, have described a new ...

A 20-year-old rock slab in a Queensland school has been found to contain an impressive collection of 66 dinosaur footprints, ...

For decades, scientists have been learning more about the diets of early hominins, particularly their reliance on plants. Yet ...

Scientists have unearthed facial bones that may belong to a previously unknown human species. The bones, nicknamed "Pink," ...

Saretta Xiao Shi-ying , 13, TWGHs Li Ka Shing College: I would like to ask the fossilised tree about more ancient things that it knows. Some history books may not tell all the details, but the ...

This changed in the late 2000s, when researchers studying ancient feathers of fossil birds and dinosaurs such as Anchiornis ...

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A trove of fossilised dinosaur footprints has been found on a slab of rock gathering dust inside a Queensland school.