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Left: Feathers from a baby bird that lived 99 million years ago, preserved in amber. Photo by Shundong Bi. Right: Illustration of what a newly hatched Enantiornithine bird may have looked like.

Fossils reveal how ancient birds molted their feathers

Two Vectipelta barretti - copyright Stuart Pond

Ankylosaur: New armoured dinosaur discovered

The fossil was found on a National Trust beach on the Isle of Wight

First side-necked turtle ever discovered in UK

Steve May, a research associate at the Jackson School of Geosciences, holds a fossil from a plesiosaur, an extinct marine reptile. Credit: Jackson School of Geosciences/ The University of Texas at Austin.

Newly discovered Jurassic fossils in Texas

Dinosaur Photo: MICHAEL ROSSKOTHEN/MostPhotos

Dinosaurs were the first to take the perspectives of others

An artist’s impression of the pliosaur by Megan Jacobs, University of Portsmouth

Giants of the Jurassic seas were twice the size of a...

The strange ridges on the teeth indicate a specialised feeding strategy, however its diet remains a mystery. (Photo by Dr Nick Longrich)

Fossil of mosasaur with bizarre ‘screwdriver teeth’ found in Morocco

Ammonite fossil From the Ohmden quarry, Posidonia shale lagerstatte. Credit: Sinjini Sinha

Golden fossils reveal origins of exceptional preservation

Periechocrinus, a Silurian crinoid. BGS © UKRI.

The largest fossil crinoids ever

Artist’s impression of two Troodons with a common nest. Illustration: Alex Boersma/PNAS

Analysis of dinosaur eggshells: Bird-like Troodon laid 4 to 6 eggs...

A juvenile Edmontosaurus disappears into the enormous, lipped mouth of Tyrannosaurus. Credit Dr Mark Witton

Predatory dinosaurs such as T. rex sported lizard-like lips

Therizinosaurs claw hooking and pulling trees Credit: Shuyang Zhou for the 3D modelling and functional scenario restoration

Dinosaur claws used for digging and display

Microscopic view of a carnivorous dinosaur's shin bone, showing growth rings that get more closely spaced towards the outside of the bone, indicating that this individual reached adulthood.

Evolution of dinosaur body size through different developmental mechanisms

Artist's impression of Ceratosuchops & orientation of skull endocast. Credit: Anthony Hutchings

Oldest spinosaur brains revealed

Image of fruit belonging to Palaeophytocrene chicoensis. The Sierra College Museum of Natural History is the permanent repository for this fossil. Credit: Brian Atkinson.

A fossil fruit from California shows ancestors of coffee and potatoes...

What once appeared as a fossil of the primitive animal Dickinsonia turned out to be notihng more than a decaying beehive, shown falling off the rock on the right just a couple years later. (Gregory Retallack/Joe Meert)

Mistaken fossil rewrites history of Indian subcontinent for second time

The fossilized skull of Coccocephalus wildi, an early ray-finned fish that swam in an estuary 319 million years ago. The fish is facing to the right, with the jaws visible in the lower right portion of the fossil. The eye socket is the circular, bumpy feature above the jaws. This fish would have been 6 to 8 inches long, about the size of a bluegill. Photo credit: Jeremy Marble, University of Michigan News.

319-million-year-old fish preserves the earliest fossilized brain of a backboned animal

Microscopic photograph of a lower jaw from Funcusvermis gilmorei soon after it was recovered during microscopic sorting of sediment from the Thunderstorm Ridge fossil site in the Petrified Forest National Park Paleontology Lab. Photo by Ben Kligman for Virginia Tech.

New geosciences study shows Triassic fossils that reveal origins of living...

(A) Completely unhatched egg from the clutch P43. (B) Almost fully intact circular outline of egg possibly indicating it to be unhatched and no loose eggshells are found in the clutch P6. (C) Compressed egg from clutch DR10 showing hatching window (arrow showing gap) and few eggshells collected just around the hatching window (circled) which possibly represent the remnants of hatching window. (D) Egg from clutch P26 showing curved outline. (E) Deformed egg from clutch P30 showing egg surfaces slipping past each other. Credit: Dhiman et al., 2023, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Researchers uncover 92 fossil nests belonging to some of India’s largest...

A figure from the study showing teeth from a megaraptor dinosaur from various view points. The black tooth preserves most of the tooth crow. The tan tooth is missing the crown apex and base. Credit: Davis et al.

Fossils Reveal Dinosaurs of Prehistoric Patagonia

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