Curiosities
Paleontology is experiencing a golden age, with a new dinosaur species discovered every 10 days on average. Those inspired by the film Jurassic Park as...
According to a study published in the journal Science, the earliest New World dogs were not domesticated from North American wolves; instead, they form a lineage that likely...
An international team of researchers from Australia, Japan, the United States and Belgium has successfully extracted bright pink biological pigments from 1.1-billion-year-old marine sedimentary rocks of the Taoudeni Basin in Mauritania, West Africa....
These so-called lessemsaurids lived roughly 237 million to 201 million years ago in present-day Argentina, roughly 47 million years before...
How much do you really know about this horned, frilled behemoth, other than that its plastic model looks cool posed next to your scale-model...
A seasoned paleontologist reveals her favorite fossil-focused spots.
T. rex arms still had musculature, so they weren’t vestigial. Theories as to their use include holding the dinosaur steady...
What would happen if we found ourselves sharing a planet with T. rex, velociraptors, and other creatures that had been extinct for tens of millions of years?
“Amber hunters” on a quest for a “Jurassic Park”-style discovery of dinosaur remains sift through mounds of the precious resin in Myanmar — a lucrative trade that captivates paleontologists but also fuels a decades-long conflict in the nation’s far north....
This bird skull Ichthyornis adds new dates for when key features of modern birds appeared....