John Long/The ConversationThe emergence of four-legged animals known as tetrapods was a key step in the evolution of many species today – including humans.Our new discovery, published today in Nature, ...

Being better able to tolerate cooler temperatures than their rivals, tyrannosaurs grew larger to become the apex predators of ...

The existence of any prehistoric apex predators in the islands of the Caribbean used to be doubted. While their absence would have probably made it even more of a paradise for prey animals, fossils ...

This led to the discovery of a new species of multituberculate named Cambelodon torreensis. Multituberculates were a ...

A recent study published in Papers in Palaeontology describes the discovery and identification of a new species of pinheirodontid multituberculate based on the preserved hemimandible from the Upper ...

Learn what secrets this pregnant ichthyosaur reveals from the Early Cretaceous and why this find is so important.

New discoveries in the Dominican Republic suggest sebecids roamed the Caribbean as recently as 4.5 million years ago, long ...

Overtourism is likely to be a major issue on the continent this summer, so why not travel somewhere closer to home.

Knife-toothed reptiles called sebecids went extinct on the mainland 10 million years ago. New fossil evidence puts them on an island 4 million years ago.

By the end of the Jurassic, dinosaurs were the undisputed rulers of the ... It vaporized rock, blasted debris into the sky, ...

West Lulworth, a picturesque village in Dorset, is home to the famous Durdle Door - a natural limestone arch on the Jurassic Coast that bears an uncanny resemblance to the Albandeira Arch in ...