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 ...

Scientists have have discovered a pair of 430 million-year-old mollusc fossils in southern Britain, dating back to a time when most of the region was covered by the sea. The ancient specimens ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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.