Paleontology
How Did Birds Outlive the Other Dinosaurs?
A preserved feather provides some essential clues
What’s Creating These Mysterious Seafloor Hexagons?
We now know who is responsible for them, but why they’re doing it is still up for debate
This “One-in-a-Million” Fossil Has 450-Million-Year-Old Soft Tissue
Only the second fossil of its type to be discovered
Small Iguanodon Fossil Sheds Light on Dino Diversity
It lived in Japan long before Japan was an island
Massive Prehistoric Crocodylians Took a Brutal Approach to Hunting
You wouldn’t want to see these eyes peering out of the swamp
Here’s Why There Aren’t Any Tiny Dinosaurs
There are plenty of teensy animals—just not dinosaurs
A New Toad Species Emerges from the La Brea Tar Pits
A paleontological leap thanks to the unusual fossilization in crude oil
This Ichthyosaur Chomped a Pterosaur—Then Got Chomped by Something Bigger
Sometimes you’re the predator, sometimes you’re the prey
Microfossils Help Crack Mystery More Than 100 Million Years in the Making
Almost all of these tiny organisms vanished way back in the early Cretaceous period
Did Ancient Humans Prefer Hunting Female Mammoths?
Female or not, mammoths were definitely key to their survival
Dinosaurs May Have Been Literally Charbroiled After the Asteroid Impact
A new study reignites the global firestorm debate
