Paleontologists
Millions of years ago, Taylor County was a far different place, one recorded in its fossil record.
After decades of conflicting evidence and numerous publications, a team of researchers at the Zoological Society of London’s Institute of Zoology has finally put the ‘world’s largest bird’ debate to rest.
At Wauconda Library's summer STEAM camp, a young patron wanted to know, "How many teeth do Yutyrannus have?"
Paleontologists have discovered what they say is a completely unexpected new sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived 200 million years ago (...
A paper published on Spetember 2018, reports that a recent fossil discovery in Central Utah is changing what researchers know about the emergence of large flowering trees both here in the Mountain West, and around the world.
The venerable Land Cruiser has the distinction of being the primary vehicle in Michael Crichton’s best-selling 1990 novel “Jurassic Park.”
Chinese paleontologists reported a newly identified, extincted bird species from a 127 million-year-old fossil deposit in northeastern China.
The Earth’s climate is changing, and it’s changed before. The world’s oceans are warming, and they’ve warmed before.
Found on the cliffs of Russia’s northwest coast along the White Sea, the fossils predate snails, bivalves, and arthropods.
According to new research published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, mesosaurs — the oldest known reptiles that developed...