Manchester Museum is home to one of the UK's largest collections of artefacts from Ancient Egypt, including items used in ...

A 183-million-year-old plesiosaur fossil unveils rare skin details, reshaping our understanding of ancient marine life.

Imagine yourself back to the time of the dinosaurs. What would you see? We've created a scavenger hunt that will help bring that time to life for you and your family.

As mammals, we humans pack some sizable cheeks on either side of our faces. There’s some skin and fat, but also important muscles and ligaments that connect the lower jaw – known as the mandible – to ...

Alligators date back to the Mesozoic era, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. They’re actually quite closely related to ...

A study led by the University of Leicester has linked fossilized tracks of flying reptiles to the specific animals that created them. Fossilized footprints dating back more than 160 million years have ...

A strange characteristic of dinosaur skulls amazed researchers, showing evidence of muscles nobody was anticipating.

A fossilized cervical vertebra discovered back in 1996 in southwestern Japan has been found to have been a new genus and ...

Paleontologists assumed just one dinosaur egg type lay buried in Utah's Cedar Mountain Formation. Then they hit the jackpot.

A major collection of more than 50 bird fossils found in northern Alaska suggest some ancient ancestors of modern birds ...

Marshall says the new genus has officially been named “Traskasaura sandrae,” and that it was a “39-foot-long, long-necked creature” whose large, sharp, robust teeth were “well-suited for crushing.” ...

The Yixian formation, located in what is now Liaoning Province, situated on China’s North-East coast, is a palaeontologist’s paradise. First investigated by Japanese scientists in 1933, the site ...