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Snapping Shrimp

An adaptation 150 million years in the making

Meet the hominin species that gave us genital herpes

Ancient mass extinction led to dominance of tiny fish, paleontologist shows

The world's smallest stegosaur footprint (less than 6 cm long), Xingjiang, China. Photo credit - Lida Xing.

Tiny cat-sized stegosaur leaves its mark

Woolly mammoths experienced a genomic meltdown just before extinction

Clues to ancient giant asteroid found in Western Australia

Fossils suggest ancestor of horses and rhinos

Acidic oceans linked to greatest extinction ever

Pterosaur

New Australian pterosaur may have survived the longest

Crittendeceratops

When the dinosaurs died, lichens thrived

Gigantic crocodile with T. rex teeth was a top land predator...

A well-preserved skeleton reveals the ecology and evolution of early carnivorous...

Core samples for Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a. Credit: Elisabetta Erba.

Volcanism drove rapid ocean deoxygenation during the time of the dinosaurs

Gigantic concretions formed in mudstone on New Zealand's Moeraki coast; about 50 million years old. The present research shows that even concretions of this size formed very rapidly, within several decades.

Cracking open the formation of fossil concretions

Morganucodon

Tiny fossils reveal how shrinking was essential for successful evolution

Who’s in that vomit, anyhow?

Shedding new light on diet of extinct animals

Marsupites

Strange hollow ball-like structures found in 80-million-year-old fossils

NHMUK PV R 9372, Palaeosauropus sp., (a) colour photograph of the original sandstone slab and tracks, (b) 3D digital render of the plaster cast of the sandstone slab and tracks and (c) black and white photograph of the original sandstone slab and tracks. In (b), left manus and pes prints are denoted a and b respectively, the right pes prints c and e, with print d being the right manus. The indented area left of print e is identified as damage to the specimen rather than a footprint impression.

Oldest known record of amphibian tracks in the UK

Thrinaxodon

Mammals’ unique arms started evolving before the dinosaurs existed

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