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 ...

The fossil's eventful history stretches far back into the past: The original skeleton of the large predatory dinosaur was described by the Munich paleontologist Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach (1871 ...

Obesity needs a new definition, argues a global group of health experts. For over 75 years, obesity has been called a disease by the World Health Organization. But the label is hotly debated.

Rummy works at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, essentially for the study of ancient vertebrate animals and ancient humans. The Chinese ...

But paleontology, the study of ancient life, is a good place to start when asking profound philosophical questions about the evolution of life here on our own planet and elsewhere. To that end ...

By Kate Golembiewski Mark Sutton, an Imperial College London paleontologist, is not a punk. “I’m more of a folk and country person,” he said. But when Dr. Sutton pieced together 3-D ...

The Bristol Palaeobiology Research Group explores all aspects of the history of the biosphere. From macroevolution to mass extinctions, we learn from the deep past to inform our predictions of the ...