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dinosaur footprint

Life

Undiscovered dinosaurs: We are entering the golden era of fossil finds

Features

Perito Moreno glacier

Environment

Ancient Earth reveals terrifying consequences of future global warming

Features

iguanodon

Life

How palaeontology got cool: Inside the revolution in dinosaur science

Culture

Sabre-toothed cat skulls

Life

Sabre-toothed cats bit rivals in the head and punctured their skulls

News

It is time to bring global attention to the trade in Burmese amber

Life

It is time to bring global attention to the trade in Burmese amber

Leader

insect in amber

Life

Blood amber: The exquisite trove of fossils fuelling war in Myanmar

Features

A diver with Protocyon jaw and vertebra

Life

Prehistoric predator fossils found in an underwater cave in Mexico

News

VR T rex

Technology

The mighty T. rex comes to terrifying life, complete with feathers

Culture

Ancient volcanic lava

Earth

Dinosaur extinction lines up closely with timing of volcanic eruptions

Many people assume an asteroid triggered the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs, but geologists say massive volcanic eruptions occurred at the same time

News

Life

Robot version of our distant ancestor hints at how we learned to walk

News

Video

Steve Brusatte: The rise and fall of the dinosaurs

Video

Life

A fossil may rewrite the story of how plants first lived on land

News

Life

Oxygen may have helped complex life arise a billion years early

News