People assume that with all this dinophilia, and with all the money spent on dinosaur paraphernalia, paleontology must be rolling in dough. Nothing could be further from the truth. In reality, ...

After the demise of the dinosaurs following an asteroid strike 66 million years ago, mammals became Earth's dominant land ...

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A team of scientists found prehistoric animal footprints that indicate how creatures behaved in Oregon as far back as 50 ...

A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds a report published in Current Biology. The hell ant, which was ...

“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 ...

In early 2023, a research team unearthed fossils in the Dominican Republic that reshaped understanding of prehistoric ...

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More than 20 years ago, volunteers helped transform the Madera County Landfill into a renowned paleontological site, ...

For David Burnham, paleontology isn’t just a science — it’s storytelling, and the stories are written in ancient creatures’ ...