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Fri, 2018-06-22

Paleontologist Sherrie Landon stoops to scoop up a fossil — a small, grayish rock, somewhat smooth on one side, dimpled with identical tiny craters on the other.

Mon, 2018-06-11

The Jurassic Park franchise hasn't really served up many compelling or memorable characters since the classic original,...

Sat, 2018-06-09

Unfortunately, while the latest movie has solved a lot of the issues fans had with the original, just as many more have popped up in their place.

Thu, 2018-06-21

Well-preserved 70-million-year-old fossil found at site in southern Italy that could yield more specimens.

Thu, 2018-06-21

Long before Chris Pratt was a velociraptor-whisperer in Jurassic World, Julianne Moore got licked by a Tyrannosaurus rex in ...

Sat, 2018-06-23

The remains of a previously unknown genus and species of gibbon, Junzi imperialis, have been found in an approximately 2,200-2,300 year-old royal tomb in Shaanxi province, China.

Thu, 2018-06-21

The skull of an ancient giant panda (radiocarbon dated to 21,910-21,495 years before present) was found in Cizhutuo Cave in Leye county, China’s Guangxi province.

Thu, 2018-06-21

It may seem like the animatronic and CGI dinos of the Jurassic Park franchise have been lumbering al...

Fri, 2018-06-22

Every year, a handful of rare dinosaur skeletons are auctioned into private hands for astronomical sums. But paleontologists fear that the private fossil trade ends up costing science, and the public, a huge amount in lost knowledge....

Thu, 2018-06-21

Jack Horner, a paleontologist who inspired a character in the original Jurassic Park, says science is ready to resurrect the dinosaurs...

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