New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution ...

For decades, paleontologists have believed that the very first dinosaurs evolved in the southern parts of the ancient supercontinent Gondwana, specifically in what is now Argentina. This theory was ...

Learn about the rise, then fall, then rise again of dinosaur enthusiasm Darren Naish and Paul M. Barrett An illustration of a plate-backed herbivore Stegosaurus and ...

A newly identified tiny dinosaur, Foskeia pelendonum, is shaking up long-held ideas about how plant-eating dinosaurs evolved. Though fully grown adults were remarkably small and lightweight, their ...

A newly described dinosaur that appears to have persisted beyond a catastrophic die-off is forcing scientists to rethink how mass extinctions actually play out on the ground. Instead of a clean break ...

A strange prehistoric shark that lived during the age of dinosaurs is giving scientists new clues about how modern sharks evolved — and raising fresh questions at the same time. The small shark, known ...

Richard Butler receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust, the European Commission and the British Institute for Libyan and Northern African Studies. In 2025, dinosaurs were everywhere. In May, the ...