Palaeontology

Losing Gus: The cost of commercial dinosaur auctions The Scientist05:18
Crystal Palace’s famous dinosaurs restored to their Victorian glory IanVisits08:16
Tyrannosaurus rex Scavenged Duck-Billed Dinosaurs in Ancient Wyoming, Bite Marks Reveal Sci.News01:09
Find fossils at these beaches near DC Washingtonian10:09
$50 Million dinosaur sale smashes auction record. Three palaeontologists told us why that’s potentially catastrophic… IFLScience17:16
Dinosaur blood preserved inside an insect in Jordanian amber Jordan News11:27
'Mind-blowing' ancient bones discovery sparked by family holiday BBC23:09

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In pictures: HTA Design reveals completed refurbishment of Crystal Palace dinosaurs Building Magazine11:19

In the last 4 hours

Remains of dinosaur skull found in B.C. campground belonged to T. rex 'great-uncle' Fraser Valley News09:16

Prehistoric fish found in Leeds park BBC08:12

In the last 6 hours

Oldest natural history museum completes redisplay BBC06:34

Earlier today

47-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals a Giant Indian Snake That Rivaled Titanoboa in Size Areo Magazine00:50

‘Oddball’ Space Rock Likely Triggered the Extinction of the Dinosaurs Areo Magazine00:19

Yesterday

Dinosaur adventure set to roar into the Torch Theatre The Pembrokeshire Herald21:31 19-Jul-26

Record-Breaking T. Rex Skeleton ‘Gus’ Fetches $50.1 Million In Anonymous Auction Win The Dallas Express16:03 19-Jul-26

Scientists May Have Finally Solved Earth’s Greatest Extinction Mystery The Debrief14:31 19-Jul-26

Fossils, puffins and golden sand put this Welsh beach among the UK's best Western Telegraph06:12 19-Jul-26

Losing Gus: The Cost of Commercial Dinosaur Auctions The Scientist05:18 19-Jul-26

In the last 7 days

Dinosaur Blood Preserved Inside an Insect in Jordanian Amber Jordan News11:27 18-Jul-26

Meet Anderson Taylor, the 9-year-old dinosaur lover who turned his fossil collection into a… The Times of India10:08 18-Jul-26

Hands-on fossils and rocks event coming to Penarth beach Penarth Times06:17 18-Jul-26

The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid May Have Came From a Rare Class of Meteorites Discover Magazine23:18 17-Jul-26

385-Million-Year-Old Amber Found in China Sci.News20:23 17-Jul-26

Italy returns pre-Columbian archaeological artifacts, fossils to Mexico UPI19:08 17-Jul-26

65 million-year-old beasts set to come to life in York this weekend York Press17:04 17-Jul-26

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs restored in £5m project Museums + Heritage Advisor13:33 17-Jul-26

Archaeologists discover half a million-year-old wooden structure — and it’s not built by Homo sapiens ZME Science12:03 17-Jul-26

The Crick Institute’s ancient DNA exhibition Does Not Appeal IanVisits12:01 17-Jul-26

A 4-billion-year-old weather report. NASA rover discovers asteroid impact on Mars rivalling the one that killed the… BBC Sky at Night Magazine11:21 17-Jul-26

Mass extinction on the cards but umbrella can shield planet Emerging Risks11:17 17-Jul-26

Rock pooling and fossil hunting sessions return to Fort Victoria this summer OnTheWight09:35 17-Jul-26

Unveiling hidden prehistoric structure via high-resolution Gpr survey at Hierakonpolis, Aswan, Egypt Nature.com02:19 17-Jul-26

Bones From Underwater Caves May Hold New Clues to Ancient Megafauna Discover Magazine23:33 16-Jul-26

'Mind-blowing' ancient bones discovery sparked by family holiday BBC23:09 16-Jul-26

Homo Sapiens Isn't The Most Successful Human Species – If We're Judging By Years In The Game IFLScience20:19 16-Jul-26

$50 Million Dinosaur Sale Smashes Auction Record. Three Palaeontologists Told Us Why That’s Potentially Catastrophic… IFLScience17:16 16-Jul-26

Dinosaurs of the Hell Creek Museum brings local paleontology to the public Black Hills Fox16:59 16-Jul-26

DNA exhibition opens today at The Francis Crick Institute EC1 Echo16:42 16-Jul-26

Crystal Palace’s dinosaurs are no longer at risk of extinction Inside Croydon16:13 16-Jul-26

T. rex was likely responsible for some tooth marks on fossil bones from Cretaceous era Phys.org15:46 16-Jul-26

Scientists May Have Finally Solved One of Human Evolution’s Biggest Mysteries: When Our Ancestors Grew Larger The Debrief13:56 16-Jul-26

Find Fossils at These Beaches Near DC Washingtonian10:09 16-Jul-26

Crystal Palace’s famous dinosaurs restored to their Victorian glory IanVisits08:16 16-Jul-26

Tyrannosaurus rex Scavenged Duck-Billed Dinosaurs in Ancient Wyoming, Bite Marks Reveal Sci.News01:09 16-Jul-26

World’s most expensive T-Rex fossil sells for $72 million, sparking scientific concerns The New Daily21:26 15-Jul-26

This Is the Oldest Amber Ever Found Nautilus20:08 15-Jul-26

World's Oldest Amber Comes From a World 150 Million Years Before Dinosaurs ScienceAlert19:09 15-Jul-26

Scientists Find First Fossils of Newborn Tyrannosaurs, Suggesting T. rex Hatchlings Were Cat-Sized Sweden Herald19:04 15-Jul-26

The Dinosaur Extinction Was More Complicated Than You Think New Scientist18:04 15-Jul-26

T. rex fossil fetches more than $50 million at auction from mystery bidder Global News17:40 15-Jul-26

What science loses when a T. rex becomes a $50 million trophy The Independent16:08 15-Jul-26

Leading palaeontologist to deliver Roarminster talk Warminster Journal14:04 15-Jul-26

Sotheby’s big T. rex auction raises concerns hype and wealth are upending science Ars Technica11:35 15-Jul-26

One-ton soil block to preserve 2,000-year-old skeletons Khaosod English11:32 15-Jul-26

Mystery bidder buys T. rex nicknamed 'Gus' for a record $50 million NPR07:27 15-Jul-26

A T. Rex Leather Bag Is up for Auction. Is It Really Dinosaur Collagen? The Scientist05:07 15-Jul-26

Mystery bidder buys T. rex nicknamed ‘Gus’ for $50m The Korea Herald03:18 15-Jul-26

New Crested Dinosaur Species Identified in Canada Sci.News23:35 14-Jul-26

Do Fossils Belong in Mansions or Museums? Nautilus23:16 14-Jul-26

How Dinosaur Skeletons Became So Expensive Nautilus20:03 14-Jul-26

What science loses when ‘T. rex’ becomes a trophy The Conversation (US)19:48 14-Jul-26

T. rex fossil named ‘Gus’ becomes the most expensive dinosaur sold at auction Scientific American19:22 14-Jul-26

Diverging Mineral Chemistry of Iron and Nickel Throughout Earth’s Changing Redox Conditions Reveals Foundation for… Astrobiology Web17:24 14-Jul-26

Rare T. rex fossil sells for record $50.1 million at auction Scripps News16:37 14-Jul-26

New Long-Necked Dinosaur Discovered in Thailand Thanks to Y-Shaped Fossil Filled With Hollow Cavities Discover Magazine14:55 14-Jul-26

Neglected Museum Fossils Turn Out to Be The First T. Rex Hatchlings Ever Found ScienceAlert11:03 14-Jul-26

This Prehistoric Giant Salamander Grew to Almost 4 Feet Long Nautilus00:10 14-Jul-26

Laura Dern pays tribute to ‘dream leading man’ Sam Neill Evening Standard00:03 14-Jul-26

Paleontologists Discover New Species of Titanosaur in Uruguay Sci.News22:49 13-Jul-26

Jeff Goldblum pays tribute to Sam Neill: ‘The next great adventure begins’ Evening Standard22:09 13-Jul-26

Fossils Dating Back 600,000 Years Document Natural History of Northwestern Saudi Arabia Riyadh Daily21:38 13-Jul-26

This T. Rex Fossil Could Fetch the Largest Sum of Any Dinosaur Ever Auctioned. Scientists Worry … Smithsonian Magazine21:34 13-Jul-26

How The Anus May Have Triggered The World’s First Mass Extinction Event And Other “Evolution” Wisdom With Chris Packham IFLScience19:21 13-Jul-26

Sam Neill, New Zealand actor who starred in ‘Jurassic Park’ and ‘The Piano,’ dies at 78 Petaluma Argus Courier, California13:52 13-Jul-26

Sam Neill: A versatile actor whose roles went far beyond Jurassic Park BBC13:20 13-Jul-26

A Man Took a Stone Blade to the Face 100,000 Years Ago and Lived to Tell the Tale ZME Science10:43 13-Jul-26

Hollywood blockbusters and arthouse films: Sam Neill's best-known roles in pictures BBC10:35 13-Jul-26

From Jurassic Park to The Piano, here are Sam Neill's best roles ABC Online09:12 13-Jul-26

Sam Neill: Actor known for starring role as Jurassic Park paleontologist Evening Standard08:50 13-Jul-26

Sam Neill, known for 'Jurassic Park' and 'The Piano,' dies at 78, his family says NPR08:22 13-Jul-26

'Jurassic Park' actor Sam Neill dies at 78 ABC13 / KTRK-TV08:11 13-Jul-26

New Zealand actor Sam Neill, known for 'Jurassic Park' and 'The Piano,' dies at 78, his family says San Francisco Chronicle07:31 13-Jul-26

Sam Neill, Actor in ‘Jurassic Park’ and ‘The Piano,’ Dies at 78 Hollywood Reporter07:09 13-Jul-26

Want to own a real T. rex? It could cost you $30 million NPR01:15 13-Jul-26

In the last month

T. rex could become most expensive fossil ever - but it's a problem for scientists BBC01:09 12-Jul-26

The Role of Jordanian Amber in Documenting Biodiversity and Its Scientific Importance Jordan News10:44 11-Jul-26

Tiny Triassic Reptile Sheds Light on Early Lizard Evolution Sci.News22:50 10-Jul-26

Ediacaran Sea Creature May Hold Earliest Evidence of Right-Handedness Sci.News22:50 10-Jul-26

New dinosaur species with neck as long as cricket pitch discovered in Thailand BBC22:40 10-Jul-26

Ancient Ocean Survivors Help Reveal What Really Caused Earth's Worst Mass Extinction Discover Magazine21:54 10-Jul-26

British Antarctic Survey confirms Antarctica's first dinosaur fossil, 40 years on Mercopress20:01 10-Jul-26

Was This Fossil Creature the First Right-Hander Ever? Nautilus19:09 10-Jul-26

Neanderthal Babies Were ‘Built Different’ and Could Reach Toddler Size in Only Six Months ZME Science18:37 10-Jul-26

Prehistoric discovery in the Oregon mountains older than Egypt's Great Pyramid could rewrite… MailOnline17:38 10-Jul-26

Researchers Confirm The Cause Of Earth’s Biggest Mass Extinction Astrobiology Web17:20 10-Jul-26

South Dakota T. rex could bring $30 million or more at auction South Dakota News Watch16:02 10-Jul-26

Flores Hobbits’ eating habits offer clues about their evolutionary past Ars Technica23:30 9-Jul-26

New Species of Long-Necked Dinosaur Identified in Thailand Sci.News20:34 9-Jul-26

‘This time, it’s the other way around’: how Indonesia is reclaiming the science of human history Nature.com17:20 9-Jul-26

A Whole New Species of Giant Dinosaur Has Just Been Identified ScienceAlert16:06 9-Jul-26

Man from 100,000 years ago may be earliest victim of stabbing in face The Independent12:07 9-Jul-26

Ancient human bones laid to rest after discovery in Ancaster LincolnshireWorld10:31 9-Jul-26

Thailand names new long-necked dinosaur from Kalasin Khaosod English04:04 9-Jul-26

UK museum sought for prehistoric Happisburgh handaxes Museums + Heritage Advisor03:54 9-Jul-26

Study finds turtles are closely related to birds and crocodiles Sweden Herald19:35 8-Jul-26

Was Homo floresiensis a Hunter or a Scavenger? Archaeology Magazine19:28 8-Jul-26

From Darwin's Fossil Discovery to Evolutionary Gigantism: The Story of Macraucheniidae Body Size Behavioural and Social Sciences at Nature Research18:02 8-Jul-26

Highway paleontologist visits Nebraska towns for Summer Reading Program KTIV TV 4, Iowa17:23 8-Jul-26

145,000-Year-Old Skull From The Site Of The World’s Earliest Human Burials Shows Signs Of Being Stabbed In The Face IFLScience16:26 8-Jul-26

Roar-some prehistoric beasts returning to Rotherham Rotherham Advertiser12:38 8-Jul-26

90,000-year-old jaw injury may reveal one of the earliest signs of human violence Knowridge Science Report12:03 8-Jul-26

New Jurassic Fossil Reveals How Birds Lost Their Dinosaur Tails Sci.News23:09 7-Jul-26

The Most Successful Entities On Earth Might Not Technically Be Alive. They Exist In A Strange Biological Twilight Zone IFLScience22:17 7-Jul-26

Hobbit-Like Hominins May Have Scavenged Komodo Dragons' Leftovers Instead of Hunting Big Game Discover Magazine20:16 7-Jul-26

Story of human evolution rewritten as new evidence points to a far more complex origin MailOnline17:46 7-Jul-26

How a Hungry Komodo Dragon Led Scientists to Determine Our Small, Hobbit-Like Cousins Probably… Smithsonian Magazine16:44 7-Jul-26

La Brea Tar Pits officially closes for 2-year renovation project CBS Los Angeles16:32 7-Jul-26

NZ’s unique fossil record of marine molluscs helps scientists predict extinction risk – before it’s too late The Conversation (AU)15:53 7-Jul-26

“It’s By Stealth, Isn’t It?” The Multi-Million Dollar Effort by Australia Fossil Fuel Companies To Get Into Schools Drilled12:31 7-Jul-26

What an Eighth Grader Taught Me About Status Quillette08:14 7-Jul-26

Neanderthals And Humans Living In A Cave in Türkiye Shared The Same Culture For 30,000 Years IFLScience21:15 6-Jul-26

Periodontal Disease May Have Influenced Human Evolution Archaeology Magazine21:02 6-Jul-26

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Latest news on palaeontology, covering fossil discoveries, dinosaurs, evolution, prehistoric life, ancient humans, and major extinction events.

Palaeontology, the scientific study of prehistoric life through fossils, continues to reshape our understanding of Earth's history. With cutting-edge technologies like CT scanning, DNA analysis, and improved dating methods, researchers are uncovering new species and revising long-held theories about ancient organisms and ecosystems.

Recent developments include remarkable discoveries of feathered dinosaur fossils in China, new hominin remains in Africa and Southeast Asia, and the identification of previously unknown mass extinction events. The ongoing debate surrounding the potential sixth mass extinction has intensified as scientists evaluate current biodiversity loss against prehistoric extinction patterns.

Beyond the scientific community, palaeontology captivates public imagination through museum exhibitions, documentary films, and citizen science initiatives. Local fossil hunting groups and educational programmes throughout Britain offer opportunities for enthusiasts to participate in real discoveries, while palaeontology-themed events draw thousands of visitors each year.

The field has evolved significantly since its 19th-century foundations, when pioneering figures like Mary Anning made groundbreaking discoveries along the Dorset coast. Today's palaeontologists employ multidisciplinary approaches, collaborating with geneticists, climatologists, and geologists to reconstruct ancient environments and understand how past climate changes affected life on Earth.

Our NewsNow feed on palaeontology brings you the latest discoveries, research breakthroughs, and scholarly debates from around the world. Whether you're a professional scientist, student, or simply fascinated by Earth's ancient history, this constantly updated feed ensures you stay informed about all developments in this dynamic field.

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