Scientists searched for the inclusion of the Gaelic and Scots words for oyster or oysters in place-names around Scotland's coast.

Recent decades have witnessed an unprecedented rise in avian fossil discoveries that directly inform our understanding of bird origins and evolution, the stepwise assemblage of the avian body plan,...

The dinosaur fossil record from Mexico is sparsely documented since most of it is fragmentary remains with little taxonomic information and a lot of it conti...

Fossil biotic interactions (fBIs) provide a critical but underutilized window into the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of life through time. Unlike modern ecological data, the fossil record captu...

This global survey of early career palaeontologists provides the first quantitative data regarding the prevalence of field skills training and field work among junior researchers of the discipline. T....

Joseph Keating puts forward a case for including palaeontology in the new GCSE Natural History curriculum due to its unique deep-time perspective.

Cetaceans are a highly diverse and enigmatic group of animals with a well-documented evolutionary history. This Review describes the macroevolutionary and palaeobiological history of Cetacea, from the...

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Recent University of Birmingham graduate Lucy chooses the fossil fish of Wyoming as her Object of the Month. Produced by Ran Gao.

The Cephalopods Are Coming: Fossil records reveal Earth’s mass extinctions are followed by a rise of ocean cephalopods. They’re rising again.

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A newly discovered fossil suggests octopuses up to 19 metres long may have hunted in Cretaceous seas.

Study of fossilised beaks shows patterns of wear and suggests some ancient species were up to 19 metres long