Palaeontology is the study of prehistoric species, mostly ones that are extinct. It focuses primarily on fossil data, using a variety of physical, chemical and biological techniques to analyse them.

Study suggests dinosaurs originated in the Amazon, but their fossils are missing. They started as small, bipedal creatures in ...

The earliest known dinosaur fossils date back to approximately 230 million years ago. Recent research suggests that even ...

New research suggests that the earliest dinosaurs may have originated in equatorial regions of Gondwana, encompassing the ...

Scientists think they know where the missing pieces to the puzzle of the evolution of dinosaurs could be found.

Local fossil hunter Peter Bennicke found the fossil at Stevns Klint - a Unesco-listed ... which confirmed the vomit could be dated to the end of the Cretaceous period 66 million years ago - a time ...

Currently, the oldest known dinosaur fossils date back about 230 million years and have been found in southern regions, including Brazil, Argentina, and Zimbabwe. Species such as Eoraptor and ...

The researchers also found evidence that silesaurids, long thought to be cousins of dinosaurs, might actually be ancestors of ...

The earliest dinosaurs may have emerged in the Amazon and other regions of South America and Africa-and their remains might [ ...

The first dinosaurs may have evolved near the equator, and not in the southwest of the supercontinent Gondwana, as ...

The fossil record has such large gaps that it can't be taken at face value ... By contrast, the earliest dinosaurs were much smaller than their descendants – more the size of a chicken or dog than a ...