Palaeontology is the study of prehistoric species, mostly ones that are extinct. It focuses primarily on fossil data, using a variety of physical, chemical and biological techniques to analyse them.

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Researchers describe the region as “the most attractive land for prehistoric settlement anywhere in the continent.” Today, this land largely makes up the coastal shelf that is currently under ...

Paleontologists have uncovered an exceptionally complete skull of a massive bird that lived 45 million years ago. This ...

The prehistoric stompings were found among a large ... discovery revealed "details that cannot be inferred from skeletal fossils". It belongs to a type of dinosaur known as the hadrosaurids ...

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The Goliath birdeater doesn't just it birds. It also eats small rodents, frogs and insects. Milan Zygmunt / Shutterstock ...

It prefers to hunt instead of building webs. Prehistoric spiders tended to be larger on average than their modern counterparts, with most fossils discovered sporting leg spans of at least a few inches ...

It prefers to hunt instead of building webs. Prehistoric spiders tended to be larger on average than their modern counterparts, with most fossils discovered sporting leg spans of at least a few ...