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) ...

Big Birthday Block Party: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19. Free. Paleo Center member sneak preview: 5-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8. Free for members. 1788 El Prado, Balboa Park. How does paleontology ...

When the skeletal remains of a giant ground sloth were first unearthed in 1796, the discovery marked one of the earliest paleontological finds in American history. When the skeletal remains of a giant ...

Thirty years ago this month, Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park was released — and created such a splash that many fans ended up pursuing a career in paleontology. Summer is the season of movie ...

Andre LuJan’s ambition is to build a public museum focused on displaying the Lone Star State’s paleontological plenty. Andre LuJan, a commercial paleontologist in a limestone cave near Uvalde, Texas, ...

The Palmetto Paleontology Museum's excavation team successfully unearthed a 29-million-year-old whale fossil from a local creek bed over the course of two days in mid-August. The excavation marks a ...

Imaging technology has revolutionized paleontology, allowing scientists to study fossils that are buried deep in the rock or too small to handle. Two recent studies I was involved with show some of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Nicole Peavey was 5 years old when she decided she wanted to be a paleontologist. At the time, it would be another decade before “Jurassic Park” hit theaters ...

Stories of the enslaved people who helped kick-start paleontology and the Native American guides who led naturalists to fossils around the continent have long been suppressed. Illustration by Meilan ...

David Burnham presents a row of T. rex teeth on April 18, 2025, at the Paleontology Lab at Dyche Hall, 1345 Jayhawk Blvd. For David Burnham, paleontology isn’t just a science — it’s storytelling, and ...