The team named the new genus Bastetodon partly in reference to the cat-headed ancient Egyptian goddess Bastet, in honor of where the specimen was unearthed and of the feline-like snout of the ancient ...

A 29-millimeter-long dinosaur egg fossil discovered in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, China, has been identified as the smallest ...

When the skeletal remains of a giant ground sloth were first unearthed in 1796, the discovery marked one of the earliest ...

“This is going to become a symbol, an icon, of African paleontology,” Ibrahim tells me. For more than two decades a cavalcade of frozen carcasses has passed through the CT scanners of Ohio’s ...

Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery.

That's a pretty good quality to have when you're the director of paleontology at Dinosaur Ridge in Morrison — and fossils are literally your job. Now Atwater has written a kids' book about fossils, ...

A nearly complete skull of the creature was found in the Egyptian desert. Its lineage indicates that it was a top carnivore ...

Recently, paleontologists Dr. John-Paul Zonneveld, Dr. Sarah Naone, and Dr. Brooks Britt described the discovery and ...

Exploring the striking, vast landscapes of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument as a young girl, a Southern Utah University senior and budding paleontologist says the land connects the past ...

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Press Release Park Paleontologist, Coastal National Park Leader Celebrated with National Conservation Awards Nov 2024 The Stephen T. Mather Award, first presented in 1984, is named after the first ...

Dinosaurs are cool. And in the spirit of showcasing some of history’s most interesting species, the Webb Schools’ Raymond M.