Jurassic Celebrity: Early Bird Gets the Spotlight
By Steven Spence A Lasting Impression For its sheer beauty, the Berlin specimen of Archaeopteryx has been described as a…
Tag: paleontology
Mounting a Monument to a Mesozoic Monster
Renowned paleontologist Dr. Dave Hone explains how the largest mounted dinosaur skeleton in the world was put together. Photography by…
Piecing Together the Archaeopteryx Puzzle
The scientific consensus today is that Archaeopteryx is one of the earliest birds. Find out why these fossils have had such a big impact.
Shelf Life Episode 1: 33 Million Things
About Shelf Life Episode 1: 33 Million Things Can’t get to New York to visit the American Museum of Natural…
Early Tetrapod Skull Looks like Crocodile
Our 360 million-year-old tetrapod ancestors may have been more like modern crocodiles than previously thought, according to a new 3D…
Fossil Sheds Light on Early Human Evolution
The discovery of a fossilized lower jaw bone in Ethiopia has pushed back evidence of the human genus — Homo…
Life on Earth May Be Older than We Thought
Life on our planet could be at least one billion years older than previously thought, according to new geological research…
Oldest Primates Lived in Trees
By Kate Stone A new study from the University of Florida suggests that humans’ earliest primate ancestor was a tree-dwelling…
Armored Dinosaurs, Elaborate Nasal Passages
Since paleontologists began using CT scans and 3D reconstructions of dinosaur remains, they have been able to tell us much…
Extinct Bison Found Frozen in Siberia
Many large mammals went extinct at the end of the last Ice Age (approx 11,000 years ago), including the Steppe…