A juvenile dinosaur fossil, Ceratosaurus nasicornis, has sold at Sotheby's New York for US$30.5 million (£22.7 million). It ...

A University of Portsmouth student has discovered a new species of prehistoric mammal dating back 145 million years to the Berriasian age, providing fresh insights into the diversity of early mammals ...

If a day trip is more suitable, consider the Dorset Heavy Horse Farm Park, where families can feed rare-breed heavy horses, ...

Benjamin Weston, who is a palaeontology student, made the incredible discovery while doing fieldwork at Durlston Bay near ...

A university student on a fossil-hunting field trip in Dorset made a stunning discovery: a 145-million-year-old jawbone belonging to a previously unknown mammal species with razor-like teeth. With the ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived long ago. But the oldest DNA obtained so far dates back about two million ...