Utah tourists are destroying ancient dinosaur tracks — and throwing them into the water
Ignorance at its finest.
Ignorance at its finest.
It's a mix of surprisingly old and surprisingly modern.
An amazing and dangerous encounter between humans and an ice age species was trapped in fossilized mud.
It's an extremely well-preserved fossil, but for now, it raises more questions than it answers.
It's impressive that we can learn so much about something so fragile, from so long ago.
These proto-birds may have evolved just like their modern relatives.
Too often we take our heads for granted.
They say don't put your eggs in one basket, but what about putting your eggs in the same bedrock?
In a way, we're all the descendants of these rats.
A huge elephant used to roam the Middle East up to 300,000 years ago.
It's an exciting and intriguing find.
He was probably a gentle giant. Accent on giant.
Charles Darwin called it "abominable mystery."
We don't even know if they were plants or animals.
New research restores the 'traditional' image of the T-Rex, concluding that the dinosaur was, at least mostly, covered in scales.
It's the first mineralized mushroom fossil we've ever found.
The case for dinosaur warm bloodedness keeps getting stronger.
A new study sheds new light on one of the last living African dinosaurs, from 66 million years ago.
Sir Attenborough really liked the name.
It's Romeo and Juliet on steroids, with geology.
CT scanning shark fossil reveals their origins.
We might have to recalibrate the tree of life.
They changed surprisingly little.
Four billion years. Let that sink in for a moment.
Finding fossilized remains of dinosaurs is one thing, but now, paleontologists have discovered proteins dating back to 195 million years ...
It was adorable, but also terrifying.
It was a brachiopode after all - who would have guessed?
Geoscientists working in South America have uncovered an ancient berry.
Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for millions of years, but they took it slowly.
We didn't even think it was possible to find one up to now.
The ancient animal had jaws that resemble those of modern land vertebrates and bony fish.
Some 60 million years ago, one dinosaur laid down to rest -- creating something unique in the whole of Europe.
An ancient pheromone spray.
Shifting ocean chemistry and predatory pressure made organisms bunker up for the first time.
Always go for a meal before you fossilize.
It took two generations to bring this fossil to light.
The biggest fish in the pond.
Museum collections are riddled with valuable specimens.
A small tooth in a fecal sample confirms that the fierce predator ate its young.
Just like a number of creatures, wood can fossilize too.
There's only one fossil of this dinosaur that we ever found -- and you're looking at it.
Crinoids are sometimes referred to as sea lillies because of their resemblance to a plant or flower. But this fossil ...
A new discovery may place the first appearance of complex life on Earth a full billion years earlier than previously ...
Kinda looks like the Sarlacc, doesn't it? Well take your geek hat off cause it isn't a sarlacc. Now put ...