Paleontology News

It is not uncommon to come across claims of fossils being found in layers where we would not expect them to be, with combinations of animals from different geological eras coming together.

Being the first ever to examine a dinosaur fossil long buried in sedimentary rock is thrilling enough for a field researcher.

A new study conducted at the University of Bristol and published online today in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology sheds light on how the brain and inner ear developed in dinosaurs.

Jacob Thomas heads his dig team of his dad, Adam , and grandpa Keith in finding fossils at the Dino Dig site.

Get ready to "Dig into Reading" all summer at the library for our summer reading theme.

A seventh-grader from Holy Trinity School in San Pedro recently won the 2013 award for Academic Excellence from the Southern California Paleontological Society for his research project.

Scientists compare it to the one that killed off the dinosaurs. But, before you start scrambling for the next shuttle flight off this planet, rest assured: It will not strike Earth.

A unique emotional and spiritual relationship between dogs and foragers in Early Neolithic Siberia was reported by paleontologists from Europe, the United States, and Russia in the open access peer reviewed journal Public Library of Scienc e on May 17, 2013.

An increase in visitors at the Virginia Museum of Natural History is being attributed largely to the popularity of two dinosaur-themed exhibits.

Day after day, over the course of nearly three years, the massive tunnel borer worked its way through the sedimentary rock layers of the Berkeley Hills during the construction of the fourth bore of the Caldecott Tunnel, grinding up the rocks in the process into fist-size pieces that were later deposited outside the entrance of the tunnel.

When Mongolia's most famous dinosaur, a relative of T. rex , returns to the Asian country on May 18, it returns to a homeland rich in dinosaur fossils, but with scant resources to display and study them.

Paul Willis was leading a tour of fossil sites in western Queensland and poking around an old quarry when he stumbled upon a fossilised vertebra of an elasmosaur, the long-necked marine , which lived 100 million years ago.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge reports they are keeping an eye out for an asteroid reportedly 1.7 miles long, one big enough to cause the dinosaurs\' extinction if it ever connected with the planet.

Asheville artist John Payne dreamed of bringing dinosaurs to life, and he worked for years to create metal dinosaur skeletons that, with the help of lever and pulley systems, move just as the living beasts might have.

The Ice Age bison's skull is encased in plaster to protect it during transportation to the San Diego Natural History Museum.

Washington, May 16 : A new study into the incubation behavior of modern birds has shed new light on the type of parental care carried out by their long extinct ancestors -Theropods, a group of carnivorous dinosaurs from which birds descended.

The camps are: Fossil Day Camp highlights the exciting paleontology exhibit "Life through Time" which features The State Museum's restored Marshalls Creek Mastodon.

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