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This Fifth Grader Found a 14,000-Year-Old Clovis Point, Likely Unearthed From Hurricane Sandy
Noah Cordle was boogie boarding in New Jersey when he came upon an ancient hunting tool
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The Moral Dilemma We Face in the Age of Humans
Humans are proficient problem solvers—but so far that trait has come at a cost. Can our species remain resilient without destroying the world?
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Meet the Mighty Spinosaurus, the First Dinosaur Adapted for Swimming
A mysterious mustachioed man helped paleontologists piece together the life story of the long-lost, semi-aquatic “Egyptian spine lizard”
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When Evolution’s Controversial, Declaring a State Fossil Can Get Tricky
The Columbian Mammoth gets caught in the crossfire of the culture wars
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Almost 65 Years After Its Pieces Were Dispersed, Scientists Reconstructed a Long-Lost Dinosaur Chase
A lost set of dinosaur footprints in Texas has been reconstructed from 70-year-old photographs
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Scientists Discover a Large and Feathered Dinosaur that Once Roamed North America
The ‘Anzu wyliei’ species looks like a cross between a chicken and a lizard
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What Prehistoric Reptile Do These Three-foot Claws Belong To?
Claws once thought to belong to a giant turtle turned out to be from one of the weirdest dinosaurs ever found
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A set of partial jaws hold an important place in the history of South American paleontology, but what sort of dinosaur do they represent?
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Stegosaurus is immediately recognizable for its prominent plates, but why did these structures actually evolve?
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Jaws once thought to be from Megalosaurus belong instead to this little-known species
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Thanks to some historical detectivework, a pair of researchers has relocated one of the earliest recognized dinosaur sites in the American west
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Sauropods are iconic dinosaurs, but the first of their kind ever found was initially thought to be a huge crocodile
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For over a century and a half, paleontologists have been confounded by the sail-backed carnivore Becklespinax. What did this dinosaur really look like?
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The Bat-Winged Dinosaur That Never Was
Just when naturalists began to suspect that birds might be dinosaurs, one researcher put forward a truly strange idea of what early bird ancestors would have looked like
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Did T. rex use its tiny arms to do push-ups?
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Paleontologists have named scores of dinosaurs, but why is T. rex our favorite?
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Carnivorous theropod dinosaurs were thought to be hydrophobic, but swim tracks show that these predators at least sometimes took a dip in lakes and rivers
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Tussling Over Thecodontosaurus
The history of Thecodontosaurus, the fourth dinosaur ever named, is a tangled tale of paleontologist politics
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Birmingham’s Smoking Dinosaurs
In 1938, awful dinosaurs roamed Birmingham, England
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New Wrinkle in Tarbosaurus Kerfuffle
The man who prepared an illicit tyrannosaur specimen claims that the dinosaur is rightly his
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