A fearsome flesh-eating bird from the Phorusrhacid family - known as "terror birds" - may be the largest of its kind ever ...

This book offers an expert’s thoughts on staying the course against biases, a feat many readers will find rewarding. Vigilant and authoritative, Hone sounds the alarm on the at times impulsive and ...

A mystery beginning in the South Atlantic and ending in South Kensington has finally been solved. The century-long story of two blue whale vertebrae can now be told for the first time, revealing ...

Between about 120 million and 130 million years ago, during the age of dinosaurs, temperate forests and lakes hosted a lively ...

DICKINSON — Paleontologists at the Badlands Dinosaur Museum in North Dakota are continuing their groundbreaking research on a ...

From the 1960s through the '80s, paleontology grew a bit, aided by advances in technology, but remained in the shadows of popular science. In 1993, Hollywood changed that. Director Steven ...

From the 1960s through the ’80s, paleontology grew a bit, aided by advances in technology, but remained in the shadows of popular science. 1:54 ‘Exciting’ prehistoric discovery at southern ...

This summer, a research team found enough fossils to qualify the specimen as one of the most complete contiguous Triceratops ...

A team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology at a site where many Psittacosaurus remains have been unearthed. At right, one of the quarries dug by local people in search of fossils.

It was further hampered by the erroneous belief there were few dinosaurs left to be found. From the 1960s through the '80s, paleontology grew a bit, aided by advances in technology, but remained in ...

The fossil was on display in a museum, but unlabeled and hidden right under paleontologists’ noses for 20 years.

Trending today: the life of Mary Anning, a once-neglected 18th-century paleontologist whose work is now getting its due. (She’s also rumored to be the inspiration for the tongue twister “she sells ...