After road construction on the Pan-American Highway revealed a mysterious whale graveyard in Chile, researchers scrambled to …
Paleontology
When Dinosaurs Came in Color
Scientists already knew that birds are descended from the dinosaurs. Now new research says that feathered dinosaurs also had surprisingly colorful plumage
Meet the Half Billion Year Old Lobster-Spider. With Tusks.
A unlikely fossil—and an even less likely means of studying it—yields surprising results
Ancient Blood-filled Mosquito Won’t Grow Any Dinosaurs
A blood-engorged insect fossil has been discovered, but unlike the movie Jurassic Park, it isn’t going to yield any dino DNA
Pipeline Worker Finds Huge Dinosaur Fossil
Paleontologists are working with pipeline crew to excavate rare specimen
Sexy Dinosaurs: The Lure of the Feather
A fossil found in Canada explains the origins of feathers — and they weren’t for flight
Found: A Parrot-Headed, Big-Fanged, Porcupine Dinosaur. Really.
A hodge-podge fossil that was ignored for decades shows how creative —and even whimsical — evolution can be
Second Gunman in Death of the Dinosaurs
A cunning study of geology, shells and ancient magnetism offers clues to a long-ago extinction
Where Did the Hobbit Come From?
As paleontologists look more closely at the skeleton of Homo floresiensis, the species’ origin gets ever more mysterious