Palaeontologist Jonah Choiniere says a student noticed a 'few (fossilised) bones coming out' of a massive rock on a remote farm in central South Africa.

‘Dinosaur country’: fossil hunters’ S. African paradise

Seismogram

Quiescent British Columbia fault capable of producing large earthquakes

Researchers confirm Earth’s inner core is solid

The island of Daphne to the north of Santa Cruz

Mineral discoveries in the Galapagos Islands pose a puzzle as to...

piranha-like fish

Piranha-like specimen, 150 million years old, is earliest known flesh-eating fish

Thylacoleo carnifex

Climate change the likely killer of Australian marsupial lion

mosasaurs

Did mosasaurs hunt like killer whales?

An underwater picture of the modern demosponge species Rhabdastrella globostellata

Oldest evidence for animals

Tylosaurus fossil

Smallest ever Tylosaurus fossil sheds light on species

An illustration of how the smaller mammals will have to evolve and diversify over the next 3-5 million years to make up for the loss of the large mammals.

Mammals cannot evolve fast enough to escape current extinction crisis

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