Archaeologist Michael Westaway, who worked on the Mungo finds, advised UNESCO in writing this month that the “destruction” of ...

A surprising discovery in the feathers of a fossil vulture from central Italy has revealed that volcanic deposits can preserve delicate tissue structures in unprecedented detail, offering new insights ...

Discovered in the McGraths Flat fossil site in New South Wales, Australia, the new fossil is a freshwater smelt belonging to the order Osmerifiromes, the first of its kind to be found in Australia.

Died 30,000 years ago, discovered 136 years ago and disrupting the field of palaeontology just this week – the surprising ...

A remarkable discovery of 66 dinosaur footprints, estimated to be 200 million years old, has been made at a Queensland school ...

Rare evidence about cyclidan crustaceans has been uncovered in the USA, revealing more about how they behaved.

Slowinski National Park, Poland is home to 'the most exceptional in Europe belt of moving dunes', which have been moving at ...

A few years ago, advances in analytical approaches to studying fossils prompted researchers to become more interested in the ...

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

A cliff fall on Dorset's Jurassic Coast has been caught on camera by a fossil expert. Ali Ferris, of Charmouth Heritage Coast ...

A researcher has confirmed a boulder at a regional school contains one of the highest concentrations of dinosaur footprints per square meter ever documented in Australia.

A slab of rock at an Australian high school, a boulder in a parking lot, and a bookend in a private collection feature ...