These radioactive elements decay at known rates, effectively acting as a built-in clock that reveals precisely when the eggs were buried millions of years ago. This natural timekeeping mechanism has ...
Paleontologists have discovered and documented 16,600 footprints left by theropods, the dinosaur group that includes the ...
A rare dinosaur skull will soon go on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, but the fossil will ...
Fossils can reveal far more than the shapes of ancient creatures. Molecules preserved inside old animal bones provide clues about past diseases, what those animals ate, and the climates they lived in.
For the first time, scientists have analyzed metabolism-related molecules from the fossilized bones of animals that lived 1.3 ...
This documentary uncovers the full evolutionary timeline of prehistoric creatures that shaped North America long before ...
The National Museum of Natural History’s new Pachycephalosaurus skull sheds light on enigmatic group of dinosaurs and will be ...
Eric and Wendy Schmidt donated a rare, $1.7 million dinosaur skull to the Smithsonian, where it will be on view this December ...
The recently acquired skull of the dome-headed dinosaur Pachycephalosaurus. USNM PAL 803273, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution. Gift of Eric and Wendy Schmidt. Photo by James D.
Few moments in paleontology are as exciting as the discovery of dinosaur eggs. These fragile and ancient specimens offer a ...