Digging up dinosaur fossils is a complicated and unpredictable business. But how does it feel to be one of the scientists on the ground doin

Morocco possesses important palaeontological heritage, recognized at both the national and international levels, including within the Boulemane region, located in the Middle Atlas Mountains. This repu...

It has been called Galahadosuchus jonesi in recognition of David Rhys Jones.

New results indicate that rhabdodontids and the previously described Ajkaceratops are actually distinctive European ceratopsians, a group better known from Asia and North America.

The Middle Jurassic is a critical time in the evolution of the dinosaurs because it witnessed the radiation of many groups, giving rise to a diversity of familiar forms such as the plated stegosaurs a...

Our science editor Rebecca Morelle went behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum.

Le Maroc voit chaque année partir des milliers de fossiles. Arrachés à la roche, revendus sur le marché international, ils rejoignent les vitrines de collectionneurs étrangers. La vente récente d’osse...

Lake Aoua dried up after the source of its water dwindled, but there are plans to restore the lake to its former glory.

The animal has come as a surprise to experts, who now have to rethink how these armoured dinosaurs evolved

The Spicomellus is “totally unlike anything else that we have ever seen,” said a co-lead of a study on the dinosaur, which lived some 165 million years ago.

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Two hundred years after the naming of the first dinosaur, taxonomic studies remain an important component of dinosaur research. Around 50 new dinosaurs are named each year and are discovered from acro...

Smyth et al. show that pterosaur footprints can be assigned to specific groups using diagnostic traits shared with body fossils. Tracks correspond to clades predicted as the most terrestrially capable...

The cerapodan dinosaurs were an ornithischian clade that achieved a global distribution in the Cretaceous Period. The ichnological record suggests that these dinosaurs had evolved by the Middle Jurassic, but only a single cerapodan body fossil, an ...

Event details Stegosaurs are a group of dinosaurs characterised by the possession of two rows of plates and spines that extend from the neck to the end of the tail. They are known from the Middle Jura...

Glossary of fossil tetrapod tracks