But that doesn’t mean you’re out of luck in seeing prehistoric ... aquatic animal to check out is the lake sturgeon. This ancient fish actually swam around with the dinosaurs, having shown ...

Paleontologists have discovered tracks belonging to meat-eating theropods and long-necked sauropods on the Isle of Skye.

Fossilised bones are some of the most tangible evidence of a dinosaur, but they aren't the only way to study these prehistoric animals. Preserved footprints, also known as ichnites, are a type of ...

This story appears in the October 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a chilly January afternoon, Susannah Maidment stands on the shore of a London lake, staring down a pack of dinosaurs.

For many, it is dinosaurs, the fierce and powerful stars of the Mesozoic era, which spanned from about 251 to 66 million years ago. However, there were also other incredible prehistoric animals.

So, given that we're unlikely to see dinosaurs roaming our zoos and safari parks anytime soon, how do scientists determine how these amazing animals fed, ran, bred and died? Palaeontologists - the ...

(Image Credit: Oscar Sanisidro) On both page and screen, we’re used to seeing dinosaurs and prehistoric birds as vibrant creatures ... species and their changing environment. The color of an animal’s ...

A 10-year-old girl out on a shoreline stroll on a Wales beach literally stumbled upon five prehistoric ... animal was here,” Claire said. “You can spend a lifetime looking for dinosaur ...