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The presence of other dinosaur footprints among the ceratopsians has led researchers to believe that these trackways could show the first evidence of mixed-species herding behaviour in dinosaurs. This ...
The oldest signs of a spider-like brain have been found in an ancient marine fossil. It shows that the key brain features of ...
The crest of Mirasaura was made of 16 feather-like structures that together formed a fan longer than the animal’s torso. Out of the numerous fossils unearthed, the longest crest is 15 centimetres long ...
This year we’re celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of our world-renowned Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.
“We’ve always known that the first solid parts of planets, or ‘planetesimals’, must form further back in time at earlier ...
Soft tissues are preserved along one side of the metre-long flipper where it’s believed to have been pressed into the sediments of the seafloor shortly after the animal’s death. This provided an ...
Are humans made of stardust? Stars that go supernova are responsible for creating many of the elements of the periodic table, including those that make up our bodies. Planetary scientist and stardust ...
Our Trainee Teacher Days give student teachers an on-site, hands-on understanding of what makes a school trip both educational and unforgettable.
Asian giant hornets are the largest social wasps in the world. Frequently referred to online and in the media as 'murder hornets', sightings of this species in North America, thousands of kilometres ...
It’s been more than 20 years since the last confirmed sighting of a wild baiji. These river dolphins are the first cetaceans – the mammal group that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises – to have ...
Human remains from across north-western Europe indicate that cannibalism was a funerary practice. ©The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London ...
While animals existed before the Cambrian Explosion, in a period known as the Ediacaran, they’ve been hard to study as they rarely fossilise. Generally, the only reminders of these animals are trace ...