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When traveling across the state of Utah, there are a variety of activities for families to enjoy in a variety of seasons. Whether you are looking to surround yourselves in nature, learn something new as a family in the coming year or s...
Sorry, T. rex fan bois, you always seem to get the rough end of the stick, don’t you?
Scientists are studying fossils of a large meat-eating dinosaur they describ...
A treasure trove of over a dozen fossils of animals, which lived 2 to 9 million years ago, has been found in southwestern Turkey, according to researchers.
An international team of paleontologists has identified and described a new genus and species of extinct flowering plant (angiosperm), based on over 200 specimens from the South Xiangshan Formation, China.
A generation of scientists, inspired by Steven Spielberg’s 1993 blockbuster, are spearheading a revival in palae...
Fossils have taught us an enormous amount about the history of life on Earth, but there are always new things to find. Here is a highly subjective selection of the best discoveries of the year.
The cataclysmic Chicxulub impact roughly 66 million years ago spawned a tsunami that produced wave heights of several meters in distant waters...
Argentine paleontologists unveiled the replica of a 65-million-year-old skeleton of a plesiosaur marine reptile found in a Patagonian lake in 2009.
Since the success of the Jurassic Park film series, it is widely known that insects from the Age of the Dinosaurs can be...