Age of terror

They’re often depicted as huge, scaly beasts, but new discoveries are changing our beliefs about the creatures that once stalked our planet

I awoke to an unearthly din, like a rubber foot pump with hiccups. It was so loud that I could feel it resonating in my guts. In the glass of water by my bed, I swear I saw concentric ripples à la tha

When you think of dinosaur fossils, you probably picture parched deserts or badlands scorched by the Sun. But one of the world’s richest dinosaur graveyards is buried in a less likely setting: a quiet

Palaeo artist Jay Balamurgan reveals how she creates dinosaurs

Walking with Dinosaurs is back, with new discoveries rewriting what we thought we knew, says lead palaeontologist Professor Nizar Ibrahim as he introduces…

Size doesn’t matter when it comes to the fighting spirit of the tiny merlin, a fierce parent and favoured hunting accessory of Mary, Queen of Scots