Around 250 million years ago, what is today scorching desert in remote northwestern Australia was the shore of a shallow bay ...

A blade of bone lay half-buried in Saharan sand, shaped like a scimitar and tall enough to confuse the people who picked it up. In November 2019, a 20-person team working in Niger collected that crest ...

Deep in the heart of the Sahara, scientists have uncovered Spinosaurus mirabilis — a spectacular new predator crowned with a ...

Fossilized dinosaur eggshells may hold the key to determining when surrounding rocks and fossils were buried. A study ...

Triceratops rerouted its nerves and blood vessels through its nose, turning its massive nasal cavity into a system for ...

The semi-aquatic dinosaur, Spinosaurus mirabilis, was discovered by an international team of scientists working in Niger.

From horseshoe crabs to crocodiles, some of these creatures have looked about the same for hundreds of millions of years.

The dusty plains of Western Australia’s Kimberley region are a long way from the ...

The Kimberley region in the northwest corner of Western Australia is full of rugged ranges and gorges, and long stretches of ...

The continued digging and exploration of palaeontologists means that, every now and then, new prehistoric creatures are discovered. Recently, the remains of a never-before-seen dinosaur, which has ...

Once, long ago, a little reptile going about its business plopped itself down in the mud before getting up and carrying on with its day. Nearly 300 million years later, that brief rest has yielded the ...