Approximately 160 million years ago, during the Age of Dinosaurs, giant marine reptiles ruled the seas. One such creature, an ...

The United States finalizes the Louisiana Purchase from France, adding the land from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains to its territory. Meriwether Lewis, of the legendary duo Lewis and ...

BYU's Paleontology Museum holds one of the largest fossil collections in the world. Many of the classic dinosaurs most people know about were found in Utah, according to Boisvert. (Cameron Cook) ...

One otherwise unmemorable day, Donald Henderson, then a student of geophysics, took a different route through the stacks of his university library. He was startled by a book he’d never seen before.

Union, Kentucky’s Big Bone Lick State Park has a rich ancient history. Beasts of the Ice Age, like mastodons, mammoths, bison, horses and giant ground sloths flocked to Big Bone Lick’s salt licks and ...

Science Central joined First News Sunday once again to show off some ancient fossils from around the world and right here in ...

The extinction that ended the Age of Dinosaurs is best known for clearing the way for the Age of Mammals on land. Scientists ...

Colonialism's legacy still casts a shadow over the way paleontologists conduct their research and learn about the world. Some researchers are trying to expose and reform that pattern. Paleontologists ...

Even before linkurl:__Jurassic Park__;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/ brought dinosaurs to cinematic life, the ancient reptiles were fascinating to most people ...

ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTER, AND THIS MORNING WE’RE HEARING FROM A CERTIFIED PALEONTOLOGIST. FIRST WARNING METEOROLOGIST ERIC BURRIS IS AT THE SCIENCE CENTER LEARNING ABOUT HOW FOSSILS ARE FORMED. HEY ...

Paleontologist Xu Xing has discovered so many dinosaurs he’s lost count. A spreadsheet he brings up on the desktop computer in his fossil-filled office in Beijing stops at 57, but Xu says he thinks it ...