paleontology

William Harlow Reed (1848–1915) was the eldest of 10 children born to Scottish parents. Born in Connecticut at the start of the California Gold Rush, he grew up hearing stories ...

Commentary There's a stage that all young boys go through—at least all the young boys known to me—that ...

It was getting late and the team of paleontologists excavating a previously unexplored outcrop of the Burgess Shale ...

Paleontologists with the University of Washington’s Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture have made a major discovery. ...

Elasmotherium sibiricum, sometimes referred to as the Siberian unicorn, had a horn likely multiple feet long.

Will these remains prove that a race of tall people existed hundreds of years ago deep in the ...

Geologist Dr. Alexander Koltypin hypothesizes that prehistoric ruts in stone were left by heavy-duty ancient vehicles—not light chariots ...

A previously unknown human-like species was seemingly capable of ritual behavior long before previously thought. A burial chamber ...

There are far stranger fossils out there than dinosaur bones. Here are some of the most bizarre specimens ...

The newest technology is revealing the secrets of the oldest dinosaur embryos in the world.

A 55,000-year-old human skull found in northern Israel confirms that humans were in the area at the time. ...

A triceratops brow horn discovered in Dawson County, Mont., has been controversially dated to around 33,500 years, challenging ...

Who peopled the New World, and when? Native American origins aren't so clear-cut, some experts say, citing genetic ...

From The Siberian Times: When Andrey Tyuryakov scanned the ground for signs of mushrooms, little did he know ...

Long ago, somewhere between 300,000 and 8 million years ago give or take a millennium or two, a ...

Abraham Lincoln believed giants existed. Many accounts of giants have been given throughout history, and many bones reportedly ...

She is the most intact woolly mammoth ever found. What could this mean for cloning?

New blood samples have been discovered in the remains of a woolly mammoth, a long-extinct creature; experts began ...

Everywhere scientists look it seems like they are finding dinosaurs. A new species is emerging at the astounding ...

  What do woolly mammoths, pandas, and John Lennon have in common? Someone out there wants them cloned. ...

Elongated skulls have been found in ancient burial grounds around the world. Many are the result of intentional ...

Scientists in Chile discovered dinosaur graveyard with nearly 46 full scaletons. Dozens of fossils of dolphin-like creature, ichthyosaurs, ...

Before Godzilla began ravaging the big screen, large creatures ravaged through America’s distant past. Here's what you'd see ...

Paleontologists in Arizona have finally figured out what animal made a set of 260 million year-old fossilized footprints. ...

If the stone really formed around this hammer more than 100 million years ago, who in the world ...

The only known dinosaur stampede has turned out to be evidence of a probable river crossing rather than ...