It only took one 13-million-year-old bone for two paleontologists to reconstruct the dramatic encounter pictured above. That bone is a…

One internship available Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Site in Nebraska. A single internship will be offered for late summer/early…

Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park in Nebraska has paid internships available. Ashfall preserves the articulated skeletons of 12-million year old…

I enter my Iowa City hotel room and open the curtains to check out the view and there’s a flash…

How old is the earliest passenger pigeon fossil?  A single wing bone found at the Lee Creek Mine paleontological locality…

One more quote from paleontologist Clayton E. Ray, this time on the epistemology of identifying animal bones: “… the techniques…

More from Clayton E. Ray: discoveries do not stay discovered; they must be tended like a garden. (p. 15)  …

I don’t think I have ever read an introduction to a collection of paleontology papers that had more gems than…

University of Florida scientists have name a newly discovered extinct crocodile Anthracosuchus balrogus, after the Tolkien’s Balrog, defeated by Gandalf…

Just discovered this site, and it looks to be quite good. Start with their post on paleontologist Hildegarde Howard, because…