Or you may find dinosaur footprints at North Bay, Scarborough or on the Isle of Skye. The fossils above aren’t the only ones you can find in the UK. Other common fossils include creatures called ...

That sentiment stems from a new paper published in Current Biology which posits that dinosaur fossils older than we’ve ever ...

Fossils are very unlikely to form in such situations.' The most common way an animal such as a dinosaur fossilises is called petrification. These are the key steps: 1. The animal dies. 2. Soft parts ...

William visits the Dorset coast and discovers how fossils are created from plants ... bits to find are the jaws at the front. The most common bit that we find of ichthyosaurs are the backbone.

All seven species share a common ancestor, probably from the distant past. The information is collected from a variety of sources such as fossil records to DNA sequences.

A “ serrated blade” found sticking from a rock in the United Kingdom has been identified as a “nearly perfect” prehistoric shark tooth, experts say. It belonged to a Squalicorax falcatus shark, which ...

Ancient fossils of the world's very first dinosaurs may be buried in places almost impossible to investigate, according to ...