Fossils

Fossilised dinosaur skull reveals adorable appearance of baby sauropods © Kundrat et al. /Current Biology

Fossilised dinosaur skull reveals adorable appearance of baby sauropods

Eigg-ceptional dinosaur bone found on Scottish island © Matt Humpage

Eigg-ceptional dinosaur bone found on Scottish island

Ancient reptile ‘well-preserved’ in stomach of slightly larger reptile © Ryosuke Motani/University of California

Ancient reptile ‘well-preserved’ in stomach of slightly larger reptile

429-million-year-old trilobite eye fossil 'almost identical to that of modern bees' (Researchers used digital microscopy to re-examine a fossilised trilobite © Brigitte Schoenemann/University of Cologne)

429-million-year-old trilobite eye fossil ‘almost identical to that of modern bees’

New species of dinosaur discovered on Isle of Wight (Artists impression of the dinosaurs final moments c Trudie Wilson/PA)

New dinosaur species discovered on the Isle of Wight a relative of Tyrannosaurus rex

99-million-year-old fossilised ‘hell ant’ shows how these ancient insects hunted © NJIT, Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of Rennes, France

99-million-year-old fight between ‘hell ant’ and its prey preserved in amber

Mystery solved: 240-million-year-old reptile with 'extraordinarily long neck' lived in the ocean © Emma Finley-Jacob

Mystery solved! 240-million-year-old reptile with 'extraordinarily long neck' lived in the ocean

Meet the ‘tiny bug slayer’, a coffee-cup-sized relative of the dinosaurs (Illustration of Kongonaphon kely, a newly described reptile near the ancestry of dinosaurs and pterosaurs, in what would have been its natural environment in the Triassic (~237 million years ago) © Alex Boersma)

Meet the ‘tiny bug slayer’, a coffee-cup-sized relative of the dinosaurs

Dromaeosaurid dinosaurs not only lived in the Arctic 'but thrived there' (An artist impression of dromaeosaurid dinosaurs © Andrey Atuchin/Plos One))

Dromaeosaurid dinosaurs ‘not only lived in the Arctic but thrived there’

200 million-year-old fossil shows dinosaur 'walked like a guineafowl' © Getty Images

200 million-year-old fossil shows dinosaur ‘walked like a guineafowl’

25-million-year-old mega wombat 'about the size of a black bear' discovered © Peter Schoute/Scientific Reports

25-million-year-old mega wombat ‘about the size of a black bear’ discovered

Revealed: the last supper of an armoured dinosaur © Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology

Revealed: the last supper of an armoured dinosaur

Cannibal dinosaurs found to have roamed late-Jurassic Earth © Brian Engh/University of Tennessee

Cannibal dinosaurs may once have roamed late-Jurassic Earth

Dinosaur sex differences 'hard to spot' from fossils alone © Mark Witton

Dinosaur sex differences ‘hard to spot’ from fossils alone

Round 'pebble-like' teeth found in 250 million-year-old marine reptile © Ryosuke Motani

Ichthyosaur’s pebble-like teeth used to ‘crush the shells of their prey’