A paleontologist studied the 200-million-year-old prints that had been hiding in plain sight, then discovered even more tracks in another rock sitting in a nearby parking lot ...
"They did not know that this was an actual fossil itself. Some were thinking that it was a replica," Australian ...
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 ...
Illinois’ commercial fossil trade is alive and well thanks to collectors who are motivated by money, science and the hunt — and who test the outer bounds of legality.
Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...
A massive dinosaur footprint of the Iguanodon species, which dates back over 100 million years, has been found on a beach in England, news agency SWNS reported. Paleontologist Joe Thompson, a ...
The landslide had exposed the edge of a cliff where Boschetto, an amateur paleontologist, noticed large bones. His trained ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...