Palaeontology
Ammonite review – Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan find love among the fossils | Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Francis Lee’s sensational biopic of palaeontology pioneer Mary Anning reimagines her erotic encounter with a woman trapped in a stifling marriage
Peter Bradshaw
25, Mar, 2021 @11:58 AM
Answer to fossil record puzzle may lie with teenage T rexes, study finds
Absence of smaller dinosaurs may be result of adolescent megatheropods crowding them out
Linda Geddes
25, Feb, 2021 @7:00 PM
Royal Mint to commemorate fossil hunter Mary Anning
Special 50p coins will feature some of the Jurassic creatures discovered by 19th-century palaeontologist
Mark Brown Arts correspondent
25, Feb, 2021 @12:01 AM
Giant worm's undersea lair discovered by fossil hunters in Taiwan
Scientists believe 2-metre-long burrow once housed predator that ambushed passing sea creatures
Ian Sample Science editor
21, Jan, 2021 @4:00 PM
Baby shark! Newborn megalodons larger than humans, scientists say
Creatures that patrolled the oceans 3m years ago were about two metres long at birth, researchers find
Ian Sample Science editor
11, Jan, 2021 @5:00 AM
Remains of new flying reptile species spotted in UK museum drawer
Student finds mislabelled fragment of pterosaur, which flew over eastern England up to 66m years ago
Steven Morris
10, Nov, 2020 @3:52 PM
First winged reptiles were clumsy flyers, research suggests
Analysis of early Pterosaurs fossils shows they are likely to have been ungainly in flight
Linda Geddes
28, Oct, 2020 @4:00 PM
Seven footprints may be the earliest evidence of humans on the Arabian Peninsula
Experts say discovery of 120,000-year-old prints could shed new light on spread of Homo sapiens out of Africa
Nicola Davis Science correspondent
17, Sep, 2020 @9:46 PM
The Guardian view on studying dinosaurs: ancient creatures, cutting-edge science | Editorial
Editorial: A discovery in the Isle of Wight should remind us that we are living in a golden age of palaeontology
Editorial
28, Aug, 2020 @5:25 PM
Climate change most likely cause of woolly rhino extinction – study
Analysis of ancient DNA from Siberia finds human hunting probably not to blame
Nicola Davis
13, Aug, 2020 @6:06 PM
Scientists follow the nose to solve mystery of long-necked reptile
Scans suggest Tanystropheus, which lived 242m years ago, lived in water, researchers say
Nicola Davis
06, Aug, 2020 @3:00 PM
Dinosaurs wiped out by asteroid, not volcanoes, researchers say
Study says surge in volcanic activity could not have caused Cretaceous/Paleogene extinction event
Nicola Davis
29, Jun, 2020 @7:00 PM
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