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 ...

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 ...

It's difficult to overstate just how surprisingly early to the party this water may have been. “This suggests that water, the ...

Paleontologists assumed just one dinosaur egg type lay buried in Utah's Cedar Mountain Formation. Then they hit the jackpot.

Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...

This month's night sky is filled with close-range meteors, swirling nebulas, and prime stargazing conditions. Here’s when you ...

Stephen Hawking had a clear, simple answer when asked what came before the Big Bang. Hawking, who died at the age of 76 in ...

Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.

Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones contains many of the world’s best-preserved, most diverse ...

It can tell us about vegetation, climate and even human activity through time. Pollen grains are far more than allergens — ...