Paleontology

Paleontology is rife with fake fossils that are made to cash in on illegal trade but end up interfering with science

Special assemblages of minuscule fossils bring dinosaur ecosystems to life

A newly identified “chicken from hell” species suggests dinosaurs weren’t sliding toward extinction before the fateful asteroid hit

Sometime between C.E. 1100 and 1700, a Massospondylus dinosaur bone was found and carried to a rock shelter in Lesotho, marking the earliest known human discovery of a dinosaur fossil

Permian period petroleum helped to preserve minute scraps of pebbly hide that probably belonged to a lizardlike creature

A dinosaur skull first discovered in the 1980s was originally catalogued as a T. rex. Now some scientists argue it represents a new species of tyrannosaur and could shed light on where the massive animals originated

The massive ancient ape Gigantopithecus blacki disappeared in a mystery that scientists are eager to crack

Annie Montague Alexander went on paleontology expeditions most women could only dream of in the early 1900s

An ancient frog, bird and dinosaur wore elusive yellow and orange shades, a new lab technique reveals

These historical forgeries show what makes misinformation so successful

Engineers and paleontologists teamed up to reconstruct an ancestor of starfish from the Paleozoic era and figure out how it moved

Can something spring back to life if it last moved around when woolly mammoths roamed the earth? The answer appears to be yes.