Paleontology
Redefining Dinosaurs: Paleontologists are Shaking the Dinosaur Family Tree to its Roots.
A radical reconfiguration of the long-standing dinosaur family tree challenges an orthodoxy built on roughly a century and a half of research.
Why We Love Dinosaurs
If museums of natural history are temples to science, dinosaurs are their shrines.
Paving Over the Fossil Record
Why isn’t India doing more to protect its rare evolutionary record?
Strange Worms Are Taking Their Place on Your Family Tree
The Cambrian explosion of animal life now seems more like a whimper.
Spark of Science: Childhood Discovery
Kirk Johnson’s mom gave him 5 minutes at a rest stop. It was enough to find an arrowhead.
The Rise and Fall of the Living Fossil
The idea that some species are relics that have stopped evolving is finally going extinct.
