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Neanderthal burial scene

The Skeletons of Shanidar Cave

A rare cache of hominid fossils from the Kurdistan area of northern Iraq offers a window on Neanderthal culture
March 2010 | By Owen Edwards

Ardipithecus ramidus life appearance and bones

The Human Family's Earliest Ancestors

Studies of hominid fossils, like 4.4-million-year-old "Ardi," are changing ideas about human origins
March 2010 | By Ann Gibbons

evolution faces

A Closer Look at Evolutionary Faces

John Gurche, a “paleo-artist,” has recreated strikingly realistic heads of our earliest human ancestors for a new exhibit
February 25, 2010 | By Abigail Tucker

Astrodon johnstoni

A Dinosaur Graveyard in the Smithsonian's Backyard

At a new dinosaur park in Maryland, children and paleontologists alike have found fossils for a new Smithsonian exhibit
February 2010 | By Abby Callard

Jean Bernard Caron with colleagues

The Burgess Shale: Evolution's Big Bang

A storied trove of fossils from a Canadian paleontological site is yielding new clues to an explosion of life on earth
August 2009 | By Siobhan Roberts

Mary Leakey Australopithecus boisei

Hominids’ African Origins, 50 Years Later

Before Mary Leakey’s discovery of hominid fossils in East Africa, many experts thought that human ancestors evolved in Asia
July 23, 2009 | By Laura Helmuth

Cambrian Period

Burgess Shale's Weird Wonders

The fossils found in the Burgess Shale include the 500-million-year-old ancestors of most modern animals
July 16, 2009 | By Smithsonian.com

John Nelson and Scott Elrick inspect a mine shaft

The World's Largest Fossil Wilderness

An Illinois coal mine holds a snapshot of life on earth 300 million years ago, when a massive earthquake "froze" a swamp in time
July 2009 | By Guy Gugliotta

Carlos Jaramillo

Discovering the Titanoboa

As part of a multi-organizational team, Smithsonian scientist Carlos Jaramillo uncovered the fossils of a gigantic snake
April 20, 2009 | By Bruce Hathaway

Fossil prospector Ron Frithiof

The Dinosaur Fossil Wars

Across the American West, legal battles over dinosaur fossils are on the rise as amateur prospectors make major finds
April 2009 | By Donovan Webster

Location of northern polar dinosaur discoveries

Dinosaur Tracking: How Did the Siberian Dinosaurs Die?

New research from a Russian site suggests that some dinosaurs were able to thrive in very cold temperatures
January 09, 2009 | By Maura McCarthy

Dinosaur Dispatch: Day 1

Michelle Coffey moves from biology class to the Bighorn Basin and prepares for her first dinosaur dig
July 03, 2008 | By Michelle Coffey

Belemnite fossils found during the first day in the field

Dinosaur Dispatch: Days 3 and 4

The paleontology team is finally in place. After setting up camp, the dig begins. Fossils are found and dinosaur tracks investigated
July 03, 2008 | By Michelle Coffey

On the march back from the Death March site, everyone carries bags of sediment

Dinosaur Dispatch: Days 6, 7 and 8

The team survives the Death March dig and makes an essential stop in Thermopolis
July 03, 2008 | By Michelle Coffey

The search yields bones believed to be from a sauropod, a suborder of dinosaurs

Dinosaur Dispatch: Days 9, 10 and 11

A new site and more digging yields a dinosaur discovery
July 03, 2008 | By Michelle Coffey

A view of the outcrop

Dinosaur Dispatch: Day 14

The paleontology team bids a fond farewell to Wyoming’s Big Basin
July 03, 2008 | By Michelle Coffey

Christopher Henshilwood

The Great Human Migration

Why humans left their African homeland 80,000 years ago to colonize the world
July 2008 | By Guy Gugliotta

Were "Hobbits" Human?

Debate rages over an Indonesian fossil find
July 2008 | By Guy Gugliotta

Engraved Ochre found at Blombos Cave

Showing Their Age

Dating the Fossils and Artifacts that Mark the Great Human Migration
July 2008 | By Sarah Zielinski

Brontosaurus skeleton sketch

Where Dinosaurs Roamed

Footprints at one of the nation's oldest—and most fought over—fossil beds offer new clues to how the behemoths lived
May 2008 | By Genevieve Rajewski


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