Dinosaurs

The Wollemi Pine was thought to have gone extinct two million years ago, until an off-duty ranger stumbled across a grove. Now, experts are doing everything they can to give the tree a second chance. 

David Elliott's chance discovery of a dinosaur fossil while sheep mustering in 1999 led to a revival of Australian palaeontology.

Mark Jacobson constructs the dinosaur replicas using a crane.

Most people scour Facebook Marketplace for a miscellaneous piece of furniture, second-hand appliances or vintage pieces, but social media users have been bewildered by the recent listing of a life-sized titanosaurus.

After a lifelong fascination with dinosaurs, PhD candidate Nathan Enriquez spends three weeks in the remote Gobi Desert retrieving the remains of the long-necked Nemegtosaurus.

The skull was found off the southern coast of England and belongs to a Pliosaur: an apex predator which roamed the ocean 150 million years ago.

Palorchestes was an ancient, blind, sharp-toothed animal that also boasted an elephant-like trunk. It lived for millions of years in pockets of Australia, but its fossils are extremely rare.

The fragment is believed to belong to the oldest-known megaraptorid — by at least 20 million years — and beach erosion could reveal even more fossils.

The asteroid 66 million years ago erased three-quarters of the world's species in an instant — but new research suggests the final blow may have unfolded in the following years, as the skies were darkened by clouds of debris and temperatures plunged.

The 95-million-year-old skeleton was found in Australia’s dinosaur capital, where enthusiasts can be part of unearthing history. You don't have to be a palaeontologist: all you need is patience, a steady hand, and a keen eye.

You don't need to be a palaeontologist to dig up dinosaur bones. These volunteers are unearthing a 95-million-year-old sauropod skeleton near Winton, proving all you need is curiosity and a keen eye.

Barry, an almost completely intact Camptosaurus, is expected to fetch almost $2 million at auction.

Thailand Palaeontologists have found a new dinosaur species among a set of fossils unearthed in the north of the country.

A fossil of a new dinosaur species has been discovered in the Phu Noi locality of Kalasin in North eastern Thailand.

Researchers say the young creature, which was about the size of a dog, is "one of the best-preserved dinosaurs ever found in South-East Asia".

The fossil shows two creatures from the Cretaceous period locked in combat, a badger-like creature chomping down on a small, beaked dinosaur.

An American crocodile managed to reproduce by herself, in a process scientists call parthenogenesis, or 'virgin birth', DNA reveals. Scientists say the discovery suggests the phenomenon may have also occurred in extinct reptiles like dinosaurs.

The 107-million-year-old bones unearthed in Dinosaur Cove belong to a juvenile pterosaur.

Elizabeth Kodela helps with the "painstaking process" of uncovering 90-million-year-old dinosaur bones. Now her passion has led to a futuristic outback installation.

A 3d printed bronze sculpture of a dinosaur nest has been installed at the Eromanga Natural History Museum, just in time to celebrate the second anniversary of a new species.

Scientists say they have unearthed a partial skeleton of a previously unknown dinosaur species in the town of Cinctorres in the Spanish province of Castellon.

Palaeontologists are using medical scanners to study dinosaur footprints in Queensland’s remote outback.

Thanks to CT scanning fossils, doctors can better understand what dinosaurs walked through Lake Quarry.

Palaeontologist Scott Hocknull likened his research to a crime scene, minus the criminals and eyewitnesses. Now, he's using technology to better understand the fossils found in Australia.

Cinnamon Melling's children are "obsessed" with dinosaurs, so she's glad to hear about a new prehistoric visitor experience planned for Victoria's Bass Coast region, where fossils dating back 126 million years have been found.