Is T. rex really three royal species? Paleontologists cast doubt over new claims. By Shi En Kim / Mar 1, 2022
June was probably a terrible month to be a dinosaur. Here’s how we know. By Michael J. Benton / The Conversation / Jan 27, 2022
Feast your eyes on exquisite fossils from an ancient rainforest (and more) By Shi En Kim / Jan 14, 2022
Human ancestors had backbones that supported effortless walking and climbing By Scott A. Williams/The Conversation / Dec 6, 2021
An overlooked fossil turned out to be a new herbivorous dinosaur with an oddly shaped nose By Philip Kiefer / Nov 10, 2021
After 60 years, a mysterious Australian dinosaur just got downsized By Margo Milanowski / Oct 22, 2021
Fossilized plants give us hints about what ice age forests may have looked like By Kate Baggaley / Oct 13, 2021
Scientists discovered an extremely rare tardigrade fossil trapped in Dominican amber By Hannah Seo / Oct 6, 2021
This 120-million-year-old bird may have been one of the first to shake its tail feathers By Kate Baggaley / Sep 17, 2021
This ancient ‘mothership’ used probing ‘fingers’ to scrape the ocean floor for prey By Kate Baggaley / Sep 9, 2021
Smugglers almost made off with a near-complete fossil of a bizarre flying reptile By Hannah Seo / Aug 26, 2021
Our four-legged ancestors evolved from sea to land astonishingly quickly By Philip Kiefer / Aug 23, 2021
A fossilized egg laid by an extinct, human-sized turtle holds a rare jackpot By Hannah Seo / Aug 18, 2021
What’s in a packrat’s petrified pee? Just a few thousand years of secrets. By Jason Bittel / Aug 12, 2021
Fossil Discovery Could Help Today’s Endangered River Dolphins By Meaghan Lee Callaghan / Aug 17, 2016
The ‘granddaddy’ of all early hominins walked on Earth a lot longer than we thought By Sara Kiley Watson / Dec 20, 2019
Why are humans good at endurance running? The answer is murky. By Timothy F. Kirn/Undark / Oct 5, 2019
A 50-million-year-old school of fish is etched forever in this rare fossil By Donavyn Coffey / Jun 3, 2019
This 25-foot-long dino discovery suggests raptors roamed farther than we realized By Sara Kiley Watson / Oct 14, 2019
A dinosaur egg bonanza is helping ecologists understand prehistoric parenting By Jason Gilchrist/The Conversation / Aug 10, 2019
The asteroid collision that changed life on Earth forever—without killing the dinosaurs By Birger Schmitz/The Conversation / Sep 20, 2019
This ancient sea creature had 45 tubular tentacles and will haunt your dreams By Kaitlin Sullivan / Apr 12, 2019
Dinosaur extinction is an unsolved mystery. This ancient fish may have swallowed some crucial evidence. By Neel V. Patel / Apr 3, 2019
These Chinese fossil deposits shed light on an explosive period in evolution By Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams/The Conversation / Mar 26, 2019
The Sahara Desert was once flooded with history’s most vicious dinosaurs By Kate Baggaley / Apr 30, 2020
Most dinosaurs didn’t swim—but this ‘dino equivalent of Jaws’ sure did By Sara Kiley Watson / May 14, 2020
Ancient poop is helping archaeologists understand a midwestern city’s demise By Kaitlin Sullivan / Feb 27, 2019
Anthropologists have identified the earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Europe By Kate Baggaley / May 13, 2020