Have paleontologists found a way to tell the gender of a dinosaur? Based on some sexual kinks, preserved in their bones for ...

In the cliffsides and dried-up arroyos of Northwestern New Mexico, deposits of sandstone and mudstone contain traces of a ...

Canadian universities are offering so many free online courses. You can take the classes even if you're not enrolled as a ...

New research reveals sharks and rays have been declining for 45 million years, offering key insight into today’s accelerating ...

A newly described dinosaur that appears to have persisted beyond a catastrophic die-off is forcing scientists to rethink how ...

Small clues can change big stories. This exquisitely preserved Miocene spider from Australia sharpens our view of ancient ...

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The book says humanity first became aware of extinction when people realized that many organisms—plants, animals and ...

For decades, the idea of resurrecting dinosaurs has captivated the public imagination. From Jurassic Parkto breathless headlines about amber-trapped insects, the notion of using ancient DNA to bring ...

Van Lierde claimed that in 1959 he encountered a giant greenish-brown snake while flying over the Katanga Province of the Belgian-occupied Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo) by helicopter. As an ...

You might not think a paleontologist looking for 66-million-year-old fossils would need to ask a rancher about his great-grandmother's job in the Wyoming badlands. But that's what Paul Sereno, a ...