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Fossils

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Uncovering Seitaad: An Interview With Mark Loewen

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Seitaad ruessi, the “Sand Monster” of the Navajo Sandstone

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Bringing a Dryptosaurus Back to Life

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Exquisitely-Preserved Skeleton Introduces a New Velociraptor Relative

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Restoring One of New Jersey’s Dinosaurs

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Incisivosaurus, a Dinosaur With an Overbite

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Asteroid Strike Confirmed as Dinosaur Killer

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New Fossils Suggest High Diversity Among Close Dinosaur Relatives

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“Bird” Wrists Evolved Among Dinosaurs

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Prehistoric Snake Fed on Baby Dinosaurs

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New Sauropod From Dinosaur National Monument Gets a Name

Ongoing studies of Neanderthal skeletons unearthed in Iraq during the 1950s suggest the existence of a more complex social structure than previously thought.

The Skeletons of Shanidar Cave

A rare cache of hominid fossils from the Kurdistan area of northern Iraq offers a window on Neanderthal culture

Ardi (right) lived in a forest in Africa. Her fossil skeleton shows that she walked upright and yet had an opposable toe, good for climbing trees.

The Human Family’s Earliest Ancestors

Studies of hominid fossils, like 4.4-million-year-old “Ardi,” are changing ideas about human origins

"Paleo-artist" John Gurche recreates the faces of our earliest ancestors, some of who have been extinct for millions of years.

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

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A New Use for Blacklights: Finding Dinosaur Feathers

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Not Everyone is Happy With Feathered Dinosaurs

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New Commentary Stirs Dino-Bird Brouhaha

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Swimming Spinosaurs

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When Tyrannosaurs Roamed New Mexico

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Dinosaurs, Now in Living Color

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