BBC Nature Dinosaurs

6 June 2013 Last updated at 09:18

Primate fossil is oldest yet foundArchicebus

A 55-million-year-old, mouse-sized fossil from China provides remarkable new insights into the origin of primates, the broad grouping of animals that also includes humans. BBC News


Artist's interpretation of the Lizard King6ft lizard named after Doors singer

A 6ft-long lizard species that roamed South East Asia some 36-40 million years ago is named after The Doors singer Jim Morrison. BBC News

An artist's impression of a Tyrannosaurus rex hunting a smaller dinosaurA great dinosaur stampede that never was?

It's billed as the world's only known dinosaur stampede - but new research is taking a fresh look at events in the Australian outback 100m years ago. BBC News

Dinosaur features

Dinosaurs

  • SpinosaurusLife on ancient Earth

    Walk with the dinosaurs and beasts of long ago and uncover the dramatic story of life on Earth

  • Tyrannosaurus rexTyrannosaurus rex

    The 'tyrant lizard king' that ruled North America during the late Cretaceous period


  • The Jurassic PeriodJurassic Period

    Explore life as it as was 200 million years ago


  • Asteroid strikeDeath of the dinosaurs

    The asteroid strike famed for the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs


  • Stegosaurus

    The Jurassic plant-eating dinosaur that was only the size of a bus

  • Fossils

    See the evidence of ancient life forms preserved by natural processes

  • Winged reptiles

    Pterosaurs, also known as pterodactyls, were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight

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