The skeletons of a duck-billed dinosaur found more than 100 years ago are so well-preserved that they contain fleshy body ...

"A lot of field work, especially paleontology, is trying your hardest not to break very important things," he said.

It’s a sad, sick world, as the daily papers, broadcast news and even High Country News report, what with droughts, drying aquifers and global warming. Sometimes one yearns for a bit of escapist fun.

"It's easy to get me excited about anything related to fossils," says Amy Atwater. That's a pretty good quality to have when you're the director of paleontology at Dinosaur Ridge in Morrison — and ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered a cache of ancient Roman artifacts in England. Among them, one “remarkable” object stood out that predates not only the Romans, but all of human civilization: a ...

Dinosaur stories are often written for children, with a cast of neon cartoon characters or animatronic models. But for adults ...

Yes, you and the kids can go dig for dinosaurs…and you can do it alongside the paleontologist who discovered Big John, the ...

Even for people of advanced years (like me), the past can seem slippery and far away. For the very young — who have so little past to reckon with — it’s an even more difficult thing to grasp. Last ...

SOUTH BEND — More than 50 visitors came to the Indiana Dinosaur Museum on opening day, their celebration a culmination of founder Mark Tarner’s vision. The museum displays massive skeletons of ...

This year marks the 200th anniversary of one of the weirdest and most reality-shifting moments in science. On Feb. 20, 1824, at the annual meeting of the Geological Society in London, the world was ...