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Paleontologist and Geologist Dr. Ken Lacovara joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about fossils. Can we ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged ...

Fossils from 7,000-year-old Caribbean reefs show a 75% drop in sharks and a rise in prey fish numbers and size.

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

The Sunda Shelf is home to a rich Pleistocene hominin fossil record, including specimens of Homo floresiensis, Homo ...

Proteins preserved in these tissues could reveal how dinosaurs managed oxidative stress which is linked to cancer, ...

The world's largest-known dinosaur mating display area may have been found hiding in plain site at Colorado's Dinosaur Ridge ...

65 miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones contains many of the world’s best-preserved, most diverse fossils.