The Wollemi Pine’s bark looks like bubbling chocolate—but its real secret? It’s a 200-million-year-old survivor from the age ...

Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they may have actually arisen in tougher conditions near the equator ...

Scientists from the Museum and Cambridge University have proposed radical changes to the dinosaur family tree, based on their analysis of hundreds of fossil features. The research provides important ...

Focus: The dependence of dinosaur diversity evolution and physiology on plants Museum researchers are investigating the extent to which the evolution of dinosaur diversity and physiology was dependent ...

You can map all of those things out and that can tell you the narrative of how evolution took a dinosaur and turned it into a bird.” “We can also calibrate that tree to time,” explains the ...

They incorporated data on the fossils and known evolutionary trees of both dinosaurs and their close reptile relatives, as well as the geography of the early Triassic. At this time, tectonic ...

In their study, Heath and his colleagues conducted simulations to assess where the earliest dinosaurs might have evolved. They incorporated data on the fossils and known evolutionary trees of both ...

The remains of the earliest dinosaurs may lie undiscovered in the Amazon and other equatorial regions of South America and Africa, suggests a new study led by UCL researchers.

The modelling study drew on fossils and evolutionary trees of dinosaurs and their close reptile relatives, as well as the geography of the period. It accounted for gaps in the fossil record by ...