A related issue is the boundary between the scientific evidence for reconstruction and the need to resort to imagination. In this book, sixteen paleontologists and biologists discuss these questions, ...

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 ...

A new study led by Dr. Jack Tseng, published in PeerJ, has shed light on the intricate relationship between tooth wear and jaw mechanics in highly carnivorous mammals, known as hypercarnivores. A ...

现在看看自己拿着手机的手，想不想感叹一句这五根手指简直是天生玩手机圣体，要是长成鱼鳍、马蹄，可怎么刷手机啊！手指不是五根也很酷啦~人和灵长目的手指脚趾都呈现五根，各种耗子、豺狼虎豹也是前肢五根手指，鳄鱼和一些蜥蜴也都是，那你有没有想过，为什么要五根手 ...

A fearsome flesh-eating bird from the Phorusrhacid family - known as "terror birds" - may be the largest of its kind ever found, despite being known only from a ...

Learn more about paleontological resources in the NPS with a focus on dinosaur fossils, how visitors can experience them, and the rules and regulations involved. The Paleo resources in our National ...

“This is going to become a symbol, an icon, of African paleontology,” Ibrahim tells me. For more than two decades a cavalcade of frozen carcasses has passed through the CT scanners of Ohio’s ...

Currie said the book and movies have shown the world paleontology is “multidisciplinary” and that bones tell stories of not only what lived but how it lived. Paleontologists, in turn ...

Folk tales and beloved characters from cultures around the globe can are celebrated in popular books for young readers. Test your knowledge of them with this short quiz. The celebrity chef’s ...

当最后披毛犀占据更新世北境的同时，一群有巨大角且体重不逊于今天白犀的真板齿犀（ Elasmotherium ）也出现在西伯利亚等地。它们的亲缘关系和现存所有犀牛和披毛犀相对远一些，但也是真犀科成员。这些“独角兽”的祖先原本角很小或者没有，也就是早期的板齿犀族成员，后来在演化过程中出现了相对大的鼻角，再之后鼻角和额角逐渐合并成一个，头部也变得粗壮，体型也渐渐增大。

in his 1676 book The Natural History of Oxfordshire. Over the next two centuries dinosaur paleontology would be dominated by ...

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 Spielberg ...