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The Cooper Center houses Orange County's largest collection of local fossils but resides in an unmarked warehouse that's ...
Big Bone Lick State Historic Site is known as the "Birthplace of American Vertebrate Paleontology." On May 9th, a ceremony ...
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Smithsonian Unveils Maryland Ice Age Fossil Trove
A Smithsonian Institution publication released on May 1, 2025, unveils the extraordinary diversity of Ice Age animals ...
With Live Stock and Dead Things, Hannah Chazin challenges familiar narratives.
A 166-million-year-old Middle Jurassic herbivorous dinosaur, the size of a large dog and bipedal, has been discovered on the ...
Big Bone Lick State Historic Site is known as the “Birthplace of American Vertebrate Paleontology.” On May 9th, a ceremony ...
Most modern birds solved this issue by evolving shorter appendages to accompany their tertial feathers. But even though ...
Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...
Archaeopteryx is the fossil that proved Darwin right. It's the oldest known fossil bird, and it helps show that all birds— ...
A report in the journal Nature estimates that the amniote tracks date to between 350 million and 359 million years ago.
At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was ...
You might think you know which animals and plants are considered "domesticated" or “domestic” and which ones aren't—but a new ...