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450 fossilized millipedes found in 100-million-year-old amber

Panoplosaurus mirus and Euoplocephalus tutus.

Huge armored dinosaurs battled overheating with nasal air-conditioning

Megalosaurus

Spectacular flying reptiles soared over Britain’s tropical Jurassic past

‘Treasure trove’ of dinosaur footprints found in southern England

Close-up of a looping millipede death-trail.

Early animals: Death near the shoreline, not life on land

Nanjinganthus fossil

Fossils suggest flowers originated 50 million years earlier than thought

Crittendeceratops

Horned dinosaur Crittendenceratops discovered in Arizona

Daohugou pterosaur

New discovery pushes origin of feathers back by 70 million years

Two of the fossils sampled for the study with the fossil melanosomes found in each fossil (scanning electron microscope images). Scaniacypselus to the left and Primotrogon to the right. Melanosome shape varies in the different samples, and is indicative of color. The sample furthest to the left was predicted to be iridescent. Credit: Photographs of Scaniacypselus and Primotrogon by Jakob Vinther and Fiann Smithwick.

Scientists discover how birds and dinosaurs evolved to dazzle with colourful...

This is a drawing of the extinct Australian giant short-faced kangaroo Simosthenurus occidentalis, part of the Sthenurinae sub-family.

Tiny Australian wallaby the last living link to extinct giant kangaroos

Volgatitan simbirskiensis anterior caudal vertebra

Scientists find new giant dinosaur

A fossil trilobite with its complex eye

Enhancing our vision of the past

Spectacular soft-tissue fossil

Soft tissue shows Jurassic ichthyosaur was warm-blooded, had blubber and camouflage

Main slab of Pengornithid Enantiornithine

Medullary bone found in Cretaceous birds

This is an artistic reconstruction of a mother and calf of Maiabalaena nesbittae nursing offshore of Oregon during the Oligocene, about 33 million years ago.

Whales lost their teeth before evolving hair-like baleen in their mouths

Teilhardina brandti

Oldest-known ancestor of modern primates may have come from North America,...

For her research Witkowski collected seawater with fresh, modern algae to test potential indicators of the past.

Fossil algae reveal 500 million years of climate change

During the Triassic period (252-201 million years ago) mammal-like reptiles called therapsids co-existed with ancestors to dinosaurs, crocodiles, mammals, pterosaurs, turtles, frogs, and lizards.

Gigantic mammal ‘cousin’ discovered

two fossilized dinosaur skeletons found on a Montana

Fight over dinosaur fossils comes down to what’s a mineral

Dinosaur reconstructions by Dr Anthony Romilio

Tiny raptor tracks lead to big discovery

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