Aug 22, 2025 by News Staff

A new genus and species of sail-backed iguanodontian dinosaur has been identified from a partial skeleton found in the Wessex Formation of the Isle of...

Jul 10, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have discovered the fossilized dental remains from a new genus and species of plagiaulacid multituberculate in the Lower Cretaceous Lulworth...

Apr 30, 2025 by News Staff

Previously believed to have occurred 1.2 billion years ago, this ancient impact created the Stac Fada Member, a layer of rock that holds vital clues to...

Apr 28, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

The specimen is the first and most complete partial dinosaur skeleton currently known from Scotland, according to a team of paleontologists led by National...

Apr 23, 2025 by News Staff

Jewelry in a treasure hoard found in Thetford Forest, East Anglia, indicates that Thetford was pagan until the 5th century CE — significantly later...

Apr 2, 2025 by News Staff

Paleontologists have discovered 131 tracks of large theropods and sauropods in the Middle Jurassic Kilmaluag Formation at Prince Charles’s Point, situated...

Mar 21, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Paleontologists have discovered and described a new ctenochasmatid pterosaurian mandible from the Late Jurassic Portland Limestone Formation of southern...

Jan 14, 2025 by News Staff

Archaeologists from the Oxford Cotswold Archaeology (OCA) have discovered a hoard of 321 mint-condition silver coins (319 full pennies plus two cut halfpence)...

Jan 8, 2025 by News Staff

Paleontologists have discovered two new three-dimensionally preserved species of aculiferan mollusks that lived during the Silurian, revealing that the...

Jan 2, 2025 by News Staff

Paleontologists have uncovered hundreds of different dinosaur footprints, including footprints left by the 9-m (29.5-foot) ferocious predator Megalosaurus...

Dec 16, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have identified a new species of procolophonid reptile from the fossilized skull and jaw fragments found in southwest England. Life reconstruction...

Dec 5, 2024 by News Staff

Several groups of meat-eating dinosaurs — tyrannosaurs, spinosaurs and members of the Velociraptor family — stalked what is now the Bexhill-on-Sea...

Oct 28, 2024 by Natali Anderson

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of Jurassic cockroach, Alderblattina simmsi, based on an isolated wing found in Gloucestershire,...

Sep 30, 2024 by News Staff

A team of archaeologists from the University of Chester, Heneb: the Trust for Welsh Archaeology and the Portable Antiquities Scheme has uncovered the ruins...

Aug 19, 2024 by News Staff

New research suggests that UK Biobank participants who use solariums and who live at locations with higher annual average residential shortwave radiation...

Aug 14, 2024 by News Staff

The Altar Stone, a 6-ton sandstone megalith that sits at the center of Stonehenge’s iconic stone circle, was sourced at least 750 km from its current...

Aug 14, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists from Japan, Belgium and the United States have identified a new species of the extinct genus Ontocetus from a nearly complete pair of fossilized...

Jun 19, 2024 by News Staff

Coffee is one of the most widely consumed beverages. In new research, scientists from the University of California, San Diego and elsewhere performed a...

Jun 5, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Pachystropheus rhaeticus — one of the last thalattosaur, a large sea-lizard that behaved like an otter — was able to move on land, but was...

Jun 4, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of paleontologists has unearthed the fossil remains of a ctenochasmatoid pterosaur from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation in Oxfordshire, central England....