Fossils

It's more common for mammals to have evolved smaller body sizes which makes it look like the brain is getting bigger. 

Marsupials have missed out on their evolutionary potential because of how they reproduce.

Their hearing may have been why these dolphins survived when all other relatives died out.

When modern humans arrived in the islands of southeast Asia, they may have encountered a range of ancient human species. 

By studying modern horseshoe crabs, researchers have been able to build up a picture of how some extinct arthropods such as trilobites may have fed on hard-shelled prey.

New 50p coin collection honours fossil hunter Mary Anning.

The often tightly wound shells of ammonites may be a familiar sight, but how much do you know about the animals that once lived inside?

It is shedding light on how the Columbian mammoth came to be. 

It is notoriously difficult to sex a dinosaur.

A milestone has been reached in the campaign for a statue of fossil hunter Mary Anning in Lyme Regis.

Radiodont eye fossils inform scientists of the role of vision in evolution. 

Many groups of dinosaurs were doing rather well right up until the end. 

If you can't get out to the beach to find fossils, why not make your own ammonites instead?

Why did they get so big?

Rodents of unusual size once lived across the Caribbean.

Were dinosaurs adhering to social distancing rules, or were they living in tight-knit herds?

This is the first 3D preserved embryo of a sauropod.

The skull shape of birds is just a tiny fraction of the diversity that would have been seen in their dinosaur ancestors.

For the first time ever, evidence of cancer has been found in the bones of a dinosaur.

A new cat-sized dinosaur with hooks for hands has been described. 

The origin of dinosaurs, their demise and what Dilophosaurus really looked like. 

New research on Turkana Boy is changing our understanding of the species Homo erectus.

A new study has found that the eggs of the earliest dinosaurs had soft shells.

The painting dates to at least 1,000 years ago.

A new family of ancient marsupials has been discovered, relatives of modern-day wombats and koalas.

This is thought to be one of the most significant dinosaur sites ever found in South Africa.

A 110-million-year-old dinosaur's fossil stomach has been studied by scientists.

Explore the latest findings from across the world of palaeontology.

It was once widely believed that ammonites were coiled snakes turned magically to stone.

Tracking the diversity of turtles could also give us clues as to how they might respond to increasing pressures in the future.

Dinosaur experts share some of the latest science news and views from across the world of palaeontology.

For over 100 years palaeontologists thought this dinosaur didn't exist.

New scans reveal how dinosaur teeth developed. 

A new fossil has revealed what they looked like.

Africa and Eurasia were inhabited by a whole range of hominin species just a few hundred thousand years ago.

This may alter the recreation of some non-avian dinosaurs. 

An ancient invertebrate lost its legs to live in tubes. 

Straight-tusked elephants were among the largest land mammals ever to have existed.

Three new coins have been designed.

They aren't scientifically accurate, but the Crystal Palace dinosaurs have a special place in the history of palaeontology.

A far greater variety of dinosaurs lived here than we realised.

The Triassic reptiles were found in Zimbabwe.

Dinosaur bones aren't the only way we can learn about the ancient reptiles that once roamed around our planet.

The footprints were made when an ancient amphibian walked across a river delta. 

Herbivorous dinosaurs kept evolving the same traits.

The meteorite formed as our solar system was being born. 

Find out how well you'd get along on a dino dig to search for famous Jurassic dinosaurs such as Brachiosaurus.

Explore an interactive story about Museum experts' adventure to Wyoming, USA, when they went off-grid in search of Jurassic dinosaurs.