Paleontology

anthropology

The 3.8 million year old skull belongs to an early hominin, a specimen that helps anchor our understanding of human evolution during the Pliocene epoch. Found in geological depo...

science

When researchers report new dinosaur footprints, they are adding tracks to the fossil record that can clarify how these animals moved, lived, and interacted with their environme...

Celebrity Profiles

An apex fossil is the most diagnostic specimen of a once-living taxon that also serves as the last known representative of a lineage before its terminal extinction event. In pra...

prehistoric-animals

Dire wolves ( Smilodon fatalis ) were large carnivores, and adults typically stood about 30 inches (roughly 76 centimeters) at the shoulder. This made them similar in height to...

science

The rarest dinosaur fossils are those that are singular, exceptionally preserved, or come from fleeting moments in Earth’s history. Rarity in paleontology depends on multiple...

science

Pictures of fossilized dinosaur eggs show the preserved remains of eggs laid by dinosaurs tens of millions of years ago, offering a direct window into dinosaur reproductive biol...

science

A dinosaur footprint found is a direct imprint of movement, behavior, and environment preserved in rock. Unlike bones, tracks show how an animal walked, turned, and interacted w...