Unearthing a 166‑Million‑Year‑Old Footprint Site
Britain’s Jurassic Highway It’s not every day you get to walk in the footsteps of giants. Yet that’s exactly what happened at Dewars Farm Quarry in…
Britain’s Jurassic Highway It’s not every day you get to walk in the footsteps of giants. Yet that’s exactly what happened at Dewars Farm Quarry in…
Mixed‑Species Trackways in Canada Imagine watching a procession of horned dinosaurs marching across a floodplain, an armoured ankylosaur lumbering alongside them and two tyrannosaurs passing…
A Purple Footprint on the Isle of Wight On a windswept February morning in 2025, fossil tour guide Joe Thompson spotted something extraordinary on the Isle of…
In July 2024 the fossil market was rocked by a sale unlike any other: Apex, a nearly complete Stegosaurus skeleton excavated from Colorado’s Morrison Formation, sold…
Inside the Ceratosaurus Sale Just a year after the Apex sale, another headline‑grabbing auction took place. A juvenile skeleton of Ceratosaurus, a predatory dinosaur from…
Sometimes it takes decades for a fossil to reveal its secrets. In 2025, palaeontologists announced Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, a small ornithischian dinosaur from the Morrison Formation of Colorado….
Zimbabwe’s Fourth Dinosaur and a Window into the Mid‑Zambezi Basin Not all great dinosaur discoveries come from well‑known fossil hotspots. In 2024 palaeontologists working near Lake Kariba…
Britain’s Most Complete Dinosaur Skeleton in a CenturY In July 2024 researchers announced Comptonatus chasei, a new iguanodontian dinosaur and the most complete land‑dwelling dinosaur skeleton discovered…
The Ceratopsian With Blade‑Like Horns Horned dinosaurs are famous for their elaborate headgear, but a 2024 discovery takes ornamentation to another level. Lokiceratops rangiformis—named for the…
The Ankylosaur With a Spiked Collar The armour‑plated ankylosaurs are often pictured as tank‑like dinosaurs covered in bony plates and wielding heavy tail clubs. Spicomellus afer…
THE Earliest Dinosaur in the Northern Hemisphere When most people imagine the dawn of the dinosaurs, they picture the Triassic landscapes of South America. A…
Oldest Dome‑Headed Dinosaur Pushes Back the Clock Pachycephalosaurs—the dome‑headed dinosaurs immortalised in films—are usually found in the Late Cretaceous. A stunning fossil from Mongolia’s Gobi Desert,…