How many fossils does it take to accurately train an image-based AI algorithm? According to a new study co-authored by Bruce ...

Tiny insects trapped in amber could tell us a great deal about their roles in past ecosystems: pollinators, parasites, predators, and prey. But how many of the insects preserved alongside each other ...

The United States finalizes the Louisiana Purchase from France, adding the land from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains to its territory. Meriwether Lewis, of the legendary duo Lewis and ...

BYU's Paleontology Museum holds one of the largest fossil collections in the world. Many of the classic dinosaurs most people know about were found in Utah, according to Boisvert. (Cameron Cook) ...

Union, Kentucky’s Big Bone Lick State Park has a rich ancient history. Beasts of the Ice Age, like mastodons, mammoths, bison, horses and giant ground sloths flocked to Big Bone Lick’s salt licks and ...

In paleontology, "amateur" can be a dirty word. Even though the term is meant to describe someone with a great affinity for a topic or activity, it all too often is used to signify a lack of knowledge ...

The BYU Museum of Paleontology is marking its 50th anniversary this year, a milestone for the BYU Department of Geological ...

In February, the Mountain America Museum of Ancient Life, a discovery center at Thanksgiving Point, will be reopening the entrance gallery to feature six brand-new exhibits. And, if you have someone ...

As a child, Mariah Green had a love of paleontology: she always carried around her favorite red Tyrannosaurus rex plush toy, read books about prehistoric life, watched movies such as Jurassic Park and ...

Now that it is 2010 and the "Darwin Year" is over, we can expect the tide of evolution-themed documentaries and books to ebb. A notable exception, however (if I do say so myself), is my forthcoming ...

ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTER CONTINUES, AND THIS MORNING WE’RE DIGGING INTO THE DESCENDANT OF DINOSAURS THAT ARE STILL ROAMING THE EARTH. OH YEAH, WE KNOW ALLIGATORS CAN BE FOUND JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE HERE IN ...