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Palaeocast Art Competition 2015

April 29th, 2015 | by David Marshall

After the success of last year’s palaeoart competition we’re stepping up a gear and launching an even bigger and better [&hellip


Romer’s Gap Fossils

April 29th, 2015 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone

Romer’s Gap has always perplexed palaeontologists by the lack of fossils, specifically tetrapods that are found during this time when [&hellip


New dinosaur tracksite

April 28th, 2015 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone

A new phenomenal dinosaur tracksite has been discovered in northern British Columbia, Canada and the Peace Region Palaeontology Research Centre [&hellip


Death and burial of dinosaurs in China

March 30th, 2015 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone

A new study has re-interpreted the well known Chinese fossil site of Lujiatun, looking at the geology and palaeontology of [&hellip


Monsoons related to rodent evolution

March 16th, 2015 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone

A recent study suggests a link between monsoons and the evolution of a group or rodents including African mole-rats, approximately [&hellip


New filter-feeding anomalocaridid

March 11th, 2015 | by David Marshall

Ever since their first appearance in the fossil record some 530 million years ago, arthropods have been the most species-rich [&hellip


Stegosaurus mass estimation

March 9th, 2015 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone

There’s been lots of news about Sophie the Stegosaurus at the Natural History Museum in London lately, and last week [&hellip


Fossil Calibration Database

March 3rd, 2015 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone

Last week, the Fossil Calibration Database was launched. We spoke to Dr. Dan Ksepka, one of the leads on the [&hellip



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