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Imagine yourself back to the time of the dinosaurs. What would you see? We've created a scavenger hunt that will help bring that time to life for you and your family.
At roughly 22 feet long and tipping the scales near 11,000 pounds, Lokiceratops is the heavyweight champion of North American ...
Alligators date back to the Mesozoic era, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. They’re actually quite closely related to ...
The calcitic layers of the eggshells of archosaurs (including crocodilians and birds) and turtles are composed of distinctive ...
Before dinosaurs, before trees — even before Saturn had its rings – there were sharks. The fierce predators have been ...
Himalayas reiterate a tale of planetary transformation — of drifting continents, lost oceans, and the birth of life itself.
It's difficult to overstate just how surprisingly early to the party this water may have been. “This suggests that water, the ...
Stromer named it Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, the Egyptian Spine Lizard. The bones were added to the Bavarian State Collection of ...
Paleontologists assumed just one dinosaur egg type lay buried in Utah's Cedar Mountain Formation. Then they hit the jackpot.
In 1984, an amateur paleontologist in Scotland found a remarkable specimen: a nearly complete fossil of what looked to be a ...
Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...
The Weis Earth Science Museum is open until May 31 in its current location. It's set to move to the History Museum at the ...