The team named the new genus Bastetodon partly in reference to the cat-headed ancient Egyptian goddess Bastet, in honor of where the specimen was unearthed and of the feline-like snout of the ancient ...
"They did not know that this was an actual fossil itself. Some were thinking that it was a replica," Australian ...
Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...
The Burpee Museum of Natural History’s PaleoFest is back and is even bigger than before. It’ll have workshops and fun activities for families, lectures for science enthusiasts, and a new Cretaceous ...
That's a pretty good quality to have when you're the director of paleontology at Dinosaur Ridge in Morrison — and fossils are literally your job. Now Atwater has written a kids' book about fossils, ...
Dinosaurs have captured people's imagination ever since their bones and teeth were first scientifically described in 1822 by ...
Paleontologist Dave Hone rates the realism of every "Jurassic Park" movie. He talks about how the T. rex hunted down its prey, how the Gallimimus outran predators, and what Velociraptors actually ...
Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly gleaned from analyzing ...