Paleontologists
One branch on the tree of life is a bit more crowded today. A team of scientists led by 20-year-old University of Toronto undergraduate student Joseph Moysiuk has finally determined what a bizarre group of extinct cone-shaped animals actually are....
With Rudy Lerosey-Aubril from New England University, he meticulously re-examined fossil material collected over 25 years ago from the mountains of Utah.
Velociraptors really did behave like wolves and hunt down their prey in packs, as depicted in the movie...
Using the fossil record to accurately estimate the timing and pace of past mass extinctions is no easy task, and a ...
A new species of dinosaur named Akainacephalus johnsoni has been discovered and announced in the Kaiparowits Formation...
Announcing the completion of time-consuming “cleaning” work, a research team in Hokkaido has unveiled what it claims is the largest dinosaur skeleton ever found in Japan.
A giant sloth, weighing 5 or 6 tons, and whose stature could exceed twice that of a human being, was part of prehistoric Costa Rica and inhabited our lands about 7 million years ago.
When I read Michael Crichton’s famous Jurassic Park in the 1990’s, I knew enough about the approach to sense that cloning could be used to bring back extinct animals.
In 2004, Woo-suk Hwang fooled the scientific community. Now he wanted to bring a species back to life.
Museum collections provide valuable datasets, and this one is no exception.