Oldest known dinosaur herds found in Patagonia
Evidence of the earliest “gregarious” behaviour springs from the nest.
Fossils from a 190-million-year-old nesting ground have revealed that its dinosaurs likely lived in herds. The specie...
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The dinosaur in the coal mine
Rethinking fossil footprints from an Australian mine.
Fossil dinosaur footprints found 50 years ago in a Queensland coal mine – and long thought to belong to a massive Tri...
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Cretaceous crab revolution in exquisite detail
The world’s most complete crab fossil preserved in amber shows gills, may have climbed trees..
Picture the scene: you’re a crab minding your own business, scuttling along the shoreline on a balmy day when, out of...
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Giddy-up: origins of the domestic horse uncovered
Ancient equine mystery traced to the steppes of the northern Caucasus.
The modern domestic horse is beloved worldwide as a favoured pet or an aid in the busy work of tending crops and live...
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When the Vikings reached the Americas
Solar-storm evidence dates a Canadian Viking settlement to (exactly) 1000 years ago.
New research from the Netherlands has more accurately dated a Viking settlement in Newfoundland, Canada, revealing th...
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Toasting a big week for ancient gastronomy
Gourmet goodies found in centuries-old Austrian and Byzantine sites.
Blue cheese, beer and wine - it’s the hipster’s smorgasbord, but it turns out humans have been chowing down on these ...
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Tracing human origins by foot
Six-million-year-old Cretan footprints challenge beliefs about human evolution
A new study has pushed back the estimated age of 50 footprints preserved in rocks on the Mediterranean island of Cret...
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What to do if you find fossils or artefacts
A new website offers some ideas.
Six years ago, grazier Robert Hacon was driving around his cattle property in outback Queensland when he drove over w...
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Animal? Vegetable? Now mineral.
When did the first animal evolve? And would we know it when we saw it?
All other photos in this story by Ian Connellan. On a hillside just west of the Flinders Ranges, geologist Mary Dr...
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Bone idle: distressed palaeontologists call for a halt to fossil digs
Are there already too many fossils in the world?
Happy Fossil Day from Cosmos! Palaeontologists simply can’t stop finding fossils, and leading researchers say it’s...
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9 funky stories for Fossil Day
Happy Fossil Day! Here at Cosmos, we’ve picked our favourite yarns about fossils to get the old b...
Happy Fossil Day! Here at Cosmos, we love a good yarn about fossils, from dinosaurs to ancient humans to the earliest...
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Can we really extract ancient DNA from dinosaurs?
Delve into the science behind ancient DNA – what exactly is it, and how easy is it to extract fro...
From million-year-old dinosaur remains to ‘resurrecting’ mammoths, stories in the news about ancient DNA make it seem...