A patch of farmland in New South Wales has turned out to be one of Australia’s most remarkable fossil sites. Hidden beneath the soil, researchers have uncovered fossils from an ancient rainforest that ...

More than 100 million years ago, a flying reptile called a pterosaur flew over the oceans hunting squid and fish. Much more recently, one of its wing bones was discovered in Brazil, transformed over ...

Anew dinosaur species has been identified from a remarkably well-preserved skull and partial skeleton found in northwestern China. Dating back around 165 to 168 million years, the specimen stands out ...

Before the oldest dinosaur, before animals or even plants had expanded onto dry land, ancient relatives of starfish called crinoids, resembling stalked sea flowers, were among the first creatures to ...