The findings shed light on how organic molecules like collagen may survive for tens of millions of years within dinosaur ...

Someone who is fascinated by the flora, fauna and creatures of the distant past and who is inspired by the wonder of nature might consider studying paleontology. Paleontology focuses on the many ...

People assume that with all this dinophilia, and with all the money spent on dinosaur paraphernalia, paleontology must be rolling in dough. Nothing could be further from the truth. In reality, ...

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

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

“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 ...

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

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, ...

In paleontology and paleobiology, we ask questions about the evolution of life that range across all geological time and span from individual species to the whole of life. We study the evolution of ...

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 ...