How did the world’s largest pterosaur fly?
Most comprehensive study yet of the enormous cousin of dinosaurs, Quetzalcoatlus.
Palaeontologists have painted the most complete picture yet of the world’s largest pterosaur, in six new papers publi...
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Rare pig-nosed turtles once called Melbourne home
New fossil discovery re-writes the evolutionary history of this endangered group.
Piecing together the evolutionary history of a taxa is a lot like trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle that you picked up ...
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Ancient hominin walked like a human but climbed like an ape
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Incredibly rare botanical event captured in amber
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New iguanodon relative revealed
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Was world’s biggest ammonite’s size a defensive strategy?
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Where’s Cambrian Willy? Inside a borrowed shell, it seems.
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New dinosaur species uncovered in frozen Greenland
Masters student identifies the country’s oldest-known plant-eating dinosaur.
Some 25 years after its bones were first uncovered in the frosty wilds of east Greenland, a new species of dinosaur, ...