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440-Million-Year-Old Fossilized Fungi May Be The Oldest Land Dwellers Yet Discovered
Though not the oldest living creatures, these fungi may have paved the way for living creatures to take hold of the land
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New Species of Prehistoric Flower Discovered Preserved in Amber
Rare fossil may be an ancient relative of the potato
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The Prehistoric Buzz Shark Has a Modern-Day Hero in Artist Ray Troll
How an Alaska-based artist helped solve a mystery that baffled paleontologists for over a century
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Construction Crews Discover Mammoth Bones Beneath an Oregon Football Stadium
10,000-year-old bones were hiding just ten feet beneath the endzone
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Nicholas Cage Returned a Stolen Dino Skull
The actor paid $270,000 for the skull of one of T. rex’s cousins
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What Killed These Marine Reptiles Found in a Nevada Ghost Town?
Paleontologists are going high tech to solve the mystery of a mass ichthyosaur death near the old mining town of Berlin
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A Moby-Dick Emerges from the Smithsonian Collections
The rediscovery of a fossil whale, previously believed to be an extinct walrus, is reexamined and digitized
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Protecting Arizona’s Petrified Forest Can Be as Easy as Taking a Hike
After dispelling myths about vandals and thieves, rangers are working to make this national park more open and engaging
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What Killed the Mammoths of Waco?
Sixty-six thousand years ago, this national monument was the site of a deadly catastrophe
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Hundreds of Dinosaur Tracks Discovered Along the Scottish Coast
Giant sauropods once roamed the Isle of Skye
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Genetic Tweaks Are Revealing the Dinosaur Traits in Living Chickens
A Yale paleontologist is blending fossil studies and bird genes to trace the ways dinosaurs transformed into today’s feathered flocks
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Ancient Bees Were Voracious Snackers on Their Pollen-Gathering Treks
Fossils from Germany could help researchers better understand modern bee eating habits and better protect the beloved pollinators
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A Long-Necked Marine Reptile Is the First Known to Filter Feed Like a Whale
The bizarre Mortuneria used sieve-like teeth to strain tasty morsels from the muddy Cretaceous seafloor
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New Winged Dinosaur May Have Used Its Feathers to Pin Down Prey
Meet “the Ferrari of raptors,” a lithe killing machine that could have taken down a young T. rex
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Tiny Terror: Controversial Dinosaur Species Is Just an Awkward Tween Tyrannosaurus
Fossil analysis supports the argument that the proposed Nanotyrannus is not its own unique species after all
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Where Dinosaurs Walked: Eight of the Best Places to See Prehistoric Footprints
Step in the footprints of giants on “dinosaur highways”
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How Long-Necked Dinosaurs Pumped Blood to Their Brains
Well-preserved fossils include spring-like neck bones that may have helped the giants get blood from their hearts to their heads
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Can Eggshells Crack the Case of Whether Dinosaurs Ran Hot or Cold?
Dinosaurs may not be cold or warm blooded, but somewhere in between
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New Dinosaur Museum Tracks the “Terrible Lizards” Through Time
The Moab Giants museum in eastern Utah makes a roaring debut
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How the Giraffe Got Its Long Neck: It Happened in Spurts
New fossils resolve this lengthy debate
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