Palaeontology is the study of prehistoric species, mostly ones that are extinct. It focuses primarily on fossil data, using a variety of physical, chemical and biological techniques to analyse them.

Hidden in a remote corner of England, a wild and windswept cove known locally as Dinosaur Egg Beach could well be one of Cornwall's best kept secrets. Tucked down a winding road where few tourists ...

Part of one the largest ever stegosaur fossil found in the UK is set to return to the town it was found in. The bone came from a dinosaur discovered around 150 years ago in Swindon. Swindon ...

The Alberta state park has produced some of the most important dinosaur fossil discoveries ever made, including 35 species dating back some 75 million years. The vertebra has a circular ...

A incredibly well-preserved fossilised dinosaur embryo which was still inside its egg has given palaeontologists new insights into the evolutionary links between modern birds and dinosaurs. The 72 to ...

Yet stark differences between some of these fossils may indicate that dinosaurs originated earlier in the Triassic period than we thought, evolving distinct characteristics as they spread across ...

In Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada, students in a field course discovered a rare type of fossil. Sifra Golombek via Unsplash Tens of millions of years after a young pterosaur took its ...

Today's oldest known fossils were unearthed in areas like Zimbabwe, Argentina and Brazil and date back about 230 million years. However, the differences among those remains suggest dinosaurs had ...

New research suggests that dinosaurs evolved in a much hotter and drier part of the world than realised, with many early fossils still to be uncovered. The origins of the dinosaurs are shrouded in ...

Scientists put their “stamp” on prehistory after discovering a massive dinosaur footprint in Mongolia ... that cannot be inferred from skeletal fossils,” expedition leader Dr. Shiobu ...

An adult and baby Pachyrhinosaurus can be seen nuzzling each other in first-look images from the new BBC series of Walking With Dinosaurs. The award-winning programme, originally narrated by Oscar ...