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This Adorable Bandit-Faced Dinosaur Will Steal Your Heart
Some dinos were small, fluffy and frankly adorable, a new analysis shows
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Ancient Trees “Ripped Their Skeletons Apart” To Grow
Cross-sections of 374-million-year-old tree trunks revealed a complex web of woody strands that split and repaired themselves
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“Lost Continent” Rises Again With New Expedition
Zealandia sank beneath ocean tens of millions of years ago, but scientists are pulling up remnants of it to study how it used to be
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Meet California’s New State Dinosaur
The herbivorous creature last tromped across the state roughly 66 million years ago
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Watch a Dinosaur Opera at New York’s American Museum of Natural History
Sink your teeth into the family friendly “Rhoda and the Fossil Hunt”
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Check Out This Awesome Trilobite Corn Maze
The elaborate Wisconsin maze honors the state’s geologic history
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Modern Humans and Neanderthals May Be More Similar Than We Imagined
A remarkably preserved 49,000-year-old skeleton shows that Neanderthal kids may have grown slowly, like us
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The Ultimate Summer Camp Activity: Digging for Dinosaurs
Meet the intrepid teenagers and teenagers-at-heart who swelter in the heat hunting for fossils
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Colorado Construction Crew Unearths 66-Million-Year-Old Triceratops Fossil
While Thornton’s new Public Safety Facility, the crew happened upon a rare find
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Was the “Sleeping Dragon” Dinosaur a Red Head?
A new study suggests the perfectly preserved armored nodosaur camoflauged itself against marauding meat-eaters
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Nine-Year-Old Accidentally Discovers a Stegomastodon Fossil in New Mexico
Jude Sparks was hiking in the desert when he tripped over the ancient creature’s skull
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Forget Dinos: Horseshoe Crabs Are Stranger, More Ancient—And Still Alive Today
But now evolution’s ultimate survivors may be in danger
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Will the Public Ever Get to See the “Dueling Dinosaurs”?
America’s most spectacular fossil, found by a plucky Montana rancher, is locked up in a secret storage room. Why?
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This 115-Million-Year-Old Mushroom Is the Oldest Fossilized Fungus
Preserved against all odds, the tiny mushroom sprung up when dinosaurs still ruled the lands
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Humans Evolved 100,000 Years Earlier Than We Thought—But Mysteries Remain
Moroccan fossil discovery alters the accepted narrative of when humans evolved and how they spread through Africa
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This 99-Million-Year-Old Bird Coexisted With Dinosaurs
The tiny bird is a big find for paleontologists
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Controversial Study Claims Apes and Human Ancestors Split in Southern Europe
Researchers believe these 7.2-million-year-old teeth have a lot to say about human evolution
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This 36-Million-Year-Old Fossil Is a “Missing Link” in Whale Evolution
Discovered in Peru, the new fossil has tiny remnants of hind limbs
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