Paleontology

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.

Scientists have uncovered an ancient trilobite’s last meal preserved inside a nearly intact fossil

A newly described fossil is as old as the “first bird,” Archaeopteryx, and represents a birdlike dinosaur that might have specialized in running or wading instead of flying

New research hints at how sauropod dinosaurs got to be so gargantuan

At Los Angeles’ La Brea Tar Pits, scientists found they could watch large mammals disappear from the fossil record—and could trace the ecosystem through the catastrophe

“I’ve never seen anything like it,” says a paleontologist not involved in the discovery of a 40-million-year-old fossilized whale

An extraordinary fossil captures the moment when a hungry mammal attacked a dinosaur

Fatlike compounds in ancient rocks point to a vast array of previously unknown microbes that once dominated complex life on Earth

Officially, these prehistoric birds are the dromornithids, but everyone who studies them calls them thunderbirds—and for good reason.