Curiosities

Wed, 2018-07-11

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...

Tue, 2018-07-10

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...

Wed, 2018-07-11

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....

Wed, 2018-07-11

These so-called lessemsaurids lived roughly 237 million to 201 million years ago in present-day Argentina, roughly 47 million years before...

Sun, 2017-10-22

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...

Sat, 2018-07-07

A seasoned paleontologist reveals her favorite fossil-focused spots.

Wed, 2018-07-04

T. rex arms still had musculature, so they weren’t vestigial. Theories as to their use include holding the dinosaur steady...

Wed, 2018-07-04

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?

Tue, 2018-07-03

“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....

Sat, 2018-06-30

This bird skull Ichthyornis adds new dates for when key features of modern birds appeared....

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