Serpentine-necked, four-flippered plesiosaurs were among the most successful marine predators in the time of dinosaurs. A remarkably complete and well-preserved fossil has revealed that at least some ...

An extraordinary fossil bed in the arid grasslands of the Australian continent, called McGraths Flat, really is the Lagerstätte that keeps on giving. Just a few years after uncovering a trove of ...

(via SciShow) Every year, we dig up the most amazing fossil discoveries and explore what they reveal about the ancient past. Here are the winners from 2025!

While it seems like researchers are finding new fossils all the time, it is actually quite rare for an animal to become fossilized. The vast majority of all animals that ever lived do not become ...

(This program is no longer streaming). Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs in a fiery global catastrophe. But we know little about how their successors, the mammals, ...

Dr Aaron Camens, Professor John Long and Dr Alice Clement with a replica of the fossil trackways at Flinders University's Palaeontology Lab. The origin of reptiles on Earth has been shown to be up to ...