As a kid, Jeff Isabelle loved reading about dinosaurs. That grew into a passion for fossils, a love of geology, and a desire to work in the field—which meant going to college. Thanks to his parents’ ...

Julie Meachen, an expert in Ice Age megafauna, skirts a dirt ledge called “the Saddle” deep inside a remarkable hollow in northern Wyoming known as Natural Trap Cave. She stops to observe Megan ...

The findings, published in the journal Antiquity, provide the first conclusive chemical evidence that tin from Cornwall and ...

Using the latest in 3D imaging technology, Western University researchers and their collaborators analyzed fossilized fish bones found in Alaska to reveal a previously undiscovered polar ecosystem.

Natural Sciences Research Laboratory at the Museum of Texas Tech University houses the largest collection in Texas. Here's what it has and does.

University of Wyoming researchers used CT scanning to see how much of the fossilized bones in an historic dinosaur were real.

Imaging of a 113-million-year-old ant fossil reveals complex, specialized mandibles, showing advanced predatory traits much ...

New research is finding that some women in Viking Age Scandinavia were buried with war-grade weapons. Experts are divided ...

Most people picture the time of dinosaurs as a steamy, tropical world. But during the Late Cretaceous period, northern Alaska was a different kind of ...

The direct ancestors of Tyrannosaurus rex would have arrived in North America after crossing a land bridge from Asia, according to a new study. The report is the latest to weigh in on the fierce ...

All mammals have a particular protein on the surface of sperm called CatSper. It controls the entry of the particles needed ...

The prehistoric crocodile relative may have tolerated both freshwater and saltwater habitats, allowing it to conquer North American coasts in the Cretaceous. Paleontologists have been on the trail ...