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New species of ancient human discovered in Philippines cave

Published: 11 Apr 2019

Natural History Museum to start dinosaur dig in US

Project Mission Jurassic will excavate land in Wyoming where brachiosaurus and diplodocus have been unearthed

Published: 26 Mar 2019
Country diary Country diary: fossils with the treasure factor draw a crowd

Published: 25 Mar 2019

Dinosaur fossil collectors ‘price museums out of the market’

Scientists demand controls on private sales as celebrities help push cost of relics into the millions

Published: 24 Feb 2019
Gigantic dinosaur prints saved from Queensland flood

Winton mayor hopes discovery of rare sauropod tracks can help his struggling town

Published: 14 Feb 2019
Ancient rock wiggles could be earliest trace of moving organism

Scientists say 2.1bn-year-old fossils may show evidence of self-propelled motion

Published: 12 Feb 2019
Gideon Mantell: forgotten man who discovered the dinosaurs

A new play recalls the battle in the scientific establishment that denied a cobbler’s son credit for a major discovery

Published: 3 Feb 2019

How Jurassic Park ushered in a golden age of dinosaurs

A generation of scientists, inspired by the 1993 film Jurassic Park, are spearheading a revival in palaeontology

Published: 23 Dec 2018

Country diary Country diary: dinosaur poo on the banks of the Severn

Aust Cliff, South Gloucestershire: We are after fossils from the upper strata, inaccessible until chunks are torn off by winter’s teeth

Published: 28 Nov 2018
New dinosaur species unearthed in Argentina

Sauropod that lived 110 million years ago is found in area that would have been desert

Published: 3 Nov 2018

Oldest Brazilian human fossil Luzia found amid National Museum debris

Museum director Alexander Kellner said the fossil was broken and 80% of its pieces had been recovered

Published: 20 Oct 2018

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