The tracks are the first to be found in Canada from this time period.
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As Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park, Sam Neill portrayed a scientist who was authentic, normal and relatable. For many budding paleontologists, it was life changing.
A 240-million-year-old animal helps us understand a period before the rise of dinosaurs and crocodiles, when their close relatives were still experimenting with different body shapes, postures, and modes of locomotion
Sold for a record price of more than $50 million, ‘Gus’ was described by Sotheby’s as more than 60% complete.
A new study challenges conventional thinking about what drove the extinction of megafauna.
More than any other ancient relative, Lucy has challenged us to think deeply about what it means to be human.
A recent study provides evidence that Neanderthals used rhinoceros teeth as tools.
A team of researchers worked grueling, hot hours in the desert to understand the history of life in Earth’s oceans after a major extinction event.
The fossil is a reminder of how incomplete our understanding of Earth’s history remains.
If humans had the same arm proportions as a T. rex, a 6-foot-tall person would have arms about 11 inches long.
Pollen, algae, insects, radiolarians – each unique microfossil holds clues to how Earth has changed over millions of years. Combining AI with digital scanners helps researchers piece it all together.
Dinosaur wings seem to have originally been used not to fly but to attract a mate.
More than a hundred years after it was found in Foul Air Cave in Victoria, the fossil is granting us new insights into deep time.
The hunt for a mythicized fossil hot spot took a team of researchers on a journey through the Sahara Desert.
The newly discovered fish fossil fills a key gap in our understanding of the evolution of vertebrate diversity.
What did the face of our ancestors looks like 3 million years ago? Meet the reconstructed skull of “Little Foot” which provides valuable insights into how our ancestors adapted to their environment.
Tiny triangular-shaped flints from arrowheads found in Uzbekistan shed light on how the first settlement of ‘Homo sapiens’ – our modern human ancestors – came to Europe.
The strange fossils were lost in museum collections around the world for some 50 years.
Remains of an ancient Arctic rhino indicate that land mammals traversed the North Atlantic via land bridges, and did so much more recently than previously thought.
A clay layer one-hundredth of an inch thick preserves the fleshy details of dinosaurs buried suddenly in east-central Wyoming.
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Emeritus Strategic Professor in Palaeontology, Flinders University
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Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of Bristol
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Chancellor's Fellow in Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of Edinburgh
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DeWitt Wallace Professor of Biology and Geology, Macalester College
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Associate professor in Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Palaeontologist, University of Southampton
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Adjunct professor, UNSW
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Associate Professor in Ancient DNA, University of Otago
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Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Leicester
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University
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Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Leicester
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Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Biology and Anthropology, Indiana University
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Senior Research Scientist, South Australian Museum; Flinders University
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Lecturer in the School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University
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Research Fellow in Biological Anthropology, Monash University