“Instead, mollusc or mollusc-like animals might be the pioneers of these early excursions onto land which date back to the ...

A FLESH-EATING bird has been uncovered after nearly 12 million years in a Colombian desert. Scientists revealed this extinct “Terror Bird” was the largest of its kind but explained which ...

In a fossil-rich pocket of northern New South Wales, two pioneering palaeontologists have spent decades digging up rare ...

This was one of the most incredible discoveries that American palaeontologist Steve Brusatte ever made. In 2014, he worked with the late Lu Junchang to find a 66-million-year-old fossil of ...

A Bermudian scientist who dedicated most of her life to studying fossils has been celebrated after she stepped down from the Natural History Museum in London. Jill Darrell took centre stage when ...

John Long is a palaeontologist who has studied in depth the 450-million-year history of sharks. When Professor Long joined ABC Conversations he schooled Richard Fidler on some impressive facts about ...

Scientists have made a one-of-a-kind discovery by uncovering an "extremely well-preserved" dinosaur tail. In 2016, a team of ...

South west of Cairo, deep in Egypt’s Western Desert, there lie treasures even more ancient than the pharaohs’ tombs — and ...

Well Go USA has released a poster and red band trailer for director Mike Hermosa’s horror-comedy The Invisible Raptor. The film follows a disgraced palaeontologist, his ex-girlfriend, a hapless ...

Researchers say origin of flight may not be simple binary of ‘can or cannot’ but a spectrum of aerial movements ...