Sir David Attenborough has called the opportunity to unearth a “one-in-a-billion” fossil a “great privilege”, ahead of the release of a documentary chronicling its extraordinary discovery and ...

A new fossil, named 'Attenborough's strange bird' after naturalist and documentarian Sir David Attenborough, is the first of its kind to evolve a toothless beak. It's from a branch of the bird family ...

The Earth seems to be forever coughing up its secrets: In the spring of 2022, fossil hunter Philip Jacobs was walking near Kimmeridge Bay in southern England—the “Jurassic Coast,” as noted by the host ...

The BBC has come under fire from the scientific community after a David Attenborough documentary about a recently discovered underwater creature only briefly mentioned the fossil finder who found it.

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The BBC has given additional credit to the man who discovered the fossilized remains of the pliosaur at the center of a critically acclaimed David Attenborough doc, after facing criticism for ...

Witness Sir David’s love of fossils as a young boy transform into a passion for the natural world. Witness Sir David’s love of fossils as a young boy in Leicester transform into a passion for the ...

While dinosaurs ruled the land, the seas were long ago the territory of a mysterious aquatic monster more closely related to snakes and lizards. The prehistoric predator known as a pliosaur dominated ...

No birds alive today have teeth. But that wasn’t always the case-- many early fossil birds had beaks full of sharp, tiny teeth. In a paper in the journal Cretaceous Research, scientists have described ...