Fossil collections are where the science of palaeontology truly lives. Valuable dinosaur bones must be treated accordingly. So stop calling museum collections "dark and dusty."

Preserve and Protect: How Palaeontologists Care for Their Long-Dead, High-Maintenance Stars

Every fossilized skeleton is a unique snowflake. We now know that some contain biological bits of tooth and claw.

Fossilized Dinos Are Bones Turned to Stone - But Sometimes, Part of the Original Dino Survives

Saw tuskers, now with fewer tusks. This unusual fossil pachyderm totally lacked upper tusks.

Palaeo Profile: The Invisible-Tusked Elephant

Kolponomos, the not-quite-a-bear that crunched shellfish for a living. This marine mammal's mouth was the perfect multi-tool for crunching shellfish.

Prehistoric Mammal Bit Like a Saber Cat, Crunched Like a Bear

A post about a fossil pangolin.

Palaeo Profile: North America's Pangolin

Newly discovered species of armoured fish was a giant. Not T. rex... B. rex.

Palaeo Profile: The Armoured Fish King

A remarkable fossil record of the dinosaurs that led to birds reveals how evolution produces entirely new kinds of organisms.

How Birds Evolved From Dinosaurs

The giant troodontid dinosaurs of Alaska. Beautiful stuff, and quite...intimidating, despite their appearance.

The Giant Troodontid Dinosaurs of Alaska

Teeth found the world over give away the existence of a shark previously unknown to science. Analysis of a new fossil shark suggests we should be saying *Otodus* megalodon.

Palaeo Profile: The Paradoxical Mega Shark

A lucky find changes the story of how Channel Islands mammals came to be so small.

The Making of California's Mini-Mammoths