This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. A new study from researchers at Utrecht ...

The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be explained by a worsening fossil record from that time rather than a genuine ...

The Hell Creek Formation in what's now the Dakotas, Montana, and Wyoming was once home to some of the world's most beloved dinosaurs, like Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus rex (including SUE, one of the ...

For decades, the Nanotyrannus occupied an uncertain place in the dinosaur world, caught between scientific classification and ...

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I’m a palaeontologist. That means I study fossils and learn about the ancient history of life on Earth. People ask me lots of questions about being a palaeontologist. What do palaeontologists do all ...