Even for people of advanced years (like me), the past can seem slippery and far away. For the very young — who have so little past to reckon with — it’s an even more difficult thing to grasp. Last ...

It’s a long walk back to the time of the dinosaurs. Down past the sauropod skeletons, their necks snaking along a mural of an ancient plain, feathery foliage bursting from the wall, just as it did ...

There are some 700 known dinosaur species, but this number could change with more discoveries. Dinosaur footprints in the Connecticut River Valley rate as the first known evidence of dinosaurs ...

Nic Rawlence receives funding from the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund. University of Otago provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. University of Otago provides funding as a ...