Dr. David Schwimmer, an expert on the giant North American crocodilian genus Deinosuchus and a Columbus State University ...

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

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) ...

In the early 20th century, pioneer paleontologist Annie Montague Alexander had to find socially acceptable fieldwork partners to avoid being accused of vague improprieties on her expeditions. She ...

A dinosaur fossil listed for sale in London for $20 million embodies one of the most heated debates in paleontology. By Julia Jacobs and Zachary Small Zachary Small reported from London, and Julia ...

Paleontologists have identified a previously unknown species of prehistoric cat that lived more than 15 million years ago and likely had a powerful bite. The new medium-sized feline species, which has ...

PARAISO DO SUL, Brazil (Reuters) -When physician Pedro Lucas Porcela Aurelio unearthed a fossil in Brazil's southern Rio Grande do Sul state in 2014, he could barely imagine his discovery would later ...

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 ...

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 ...

Frozen in time, a 125-million-year-old mammal attacking a dinosaur. A 39-million-year-old whale, the heaviest animal that ever lived. The oldest known jellyfish, from 505 million years ago.

An illustration of Tetrapodophis, a lizard that was named based on a fossil likely smuggled out of Brazil to Germany Julius Csotonyi For a creature about the length of a banana, Tetrapodophis created ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 million years ago was Homo erectus. But in recent years, a debate has ...