Valdosaurus partial but articulated skeleton found on Isle of Wight

The tail, rear legs, pelvis and vertebra were found by a local person in the sandstone (South side) of the Isle of Wight in October 2012 and are now being prepped and preserved.

Rare Soft Bodied Worm Found In Burgess Shales

The finding of this soft bodied worm in the Burgess Shale of Canada pushes back their presence by 200 million years.

Rare Amoeba-like Fossils Found in China.

Rare Amoeba-like fossils, one of the first cellular organisms have been found in 570 million year old strata in South China showing several stages of asexual reproduction.

Toxic Oceans May Have Delayed Spread of Complex Life

A new model suggests that inhospitable hydrodgen-sulphide rich waters could have delayed the spread of complex life forms in ancient oceans.

New Research - Campanian Crocs & a New Dinosaur iInterlinked!

Researchers in Utah, USA have discovered a new small dinosaur while looking at the diet of a crocodile from the Campanian (Cretaceous)!

Buried Continent Under Pacific Ocean

Dinosaur Behaviour from Ichno Fossils!

An interesting article on what we can learn from trace fossils about dinosaurs.

200m long slip on Monmouth beach Lyme Regis, Dorset, UK

There has been yet another large lansdslide in Lyme Regis, Dorset - this is the latest from the coastguard.

Placental Mammal Diversity Exploded After Age of Dinosaurs

New research on the ancient placental mammals shows an explosion of these animals after the dinosaurs are wiped out.

Dinosaur-killing asteroid was a binary asteroid

Two asteroids striking the earth together in the same crater may have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs at the K-T Mass Extinction…