Gizmodo spoke with David Hone, author of a new book exploring how paleontologists study dinosaurs—and why it’s time to rethink the rules.
While we go about our daily lives on Earth, a nuclear-powered robot the size of a small car is trundling around Mars looking for fossils.
Every once in a while, paleontologists stumble upon some particularly bizarre specimens and scenes.
A specimen supposedly containing fossilized reptile skin is actually a forgery, according to new research.
The tree’s canopy was 18 feet across, but its trunk was just half-a-foot thick.
And you thought you were in need of some moisturizer.
The preserved structures show a process that gave rise to life as we know it.
These modern destinations are stunning windows into the ancient past.
Deep-time fossils usually don't reveal the sex of the ancient creature, but new research aims to change that.
Paleontologists found "nucleus-like" structures in a Miocene turtle fossil from Panama.
The "absolutely stuffed" arthropod evinces a scavenged diet of several marine species.
When you think of fossils, bones may be the first image that comes to mind. But for paleontologists, trace fossils like these can be even more exciting.
A massive new oilfield could be greenlit by the Biden administration as early as this week.
The proposed the Greenlink West transmission line in Nevada would run through a site filled with mammoth and saber-tooth cat fossils.
Low water levels in the river have revealed sunken artifacts—and now a fossil from an American lion.
Fossilization turned these ordinary spiders into fluorescent wonders.
The 42-million-year-old predator, with its cat-like appearance and elongated fangs, was a sign of things to come.
Paleontologists were surprised by the discovery of 500-million-year-old fossils that reveal penis worms inside shells.
Scientists are calling it a “once-in-a-generation” discovery.
Structures resembling a nucleus and chromatin turned up in the fossilized cartilage of a turkey-like dinosaur.
