It took 25 years, but fossil hunter Anthony Maltese finally found what he was looking for: an elusive Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil. Maltese, working with his Triebold Paleontology, Inc. team that is based ...

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 ...

An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ecosystem that helped kick-start the recovery of Earth's oceans after a global ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was the second to last day in the field two years ago. During the heat of a Montana summer, the Carthage Institute of ...

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 ...

SUMMERVILLE — Skye Basak scours the bones. They’re grooved and gray, scattered on a dusty table like ancient souvenirs. A floor lamp washes the baubles in buttery light, and under Basak’s searching ...

What happens behind the scenes of a dinosaur exhibit? Short Wave host Regina Barber got to find out … by taking a trip to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. In the museum’s basement ...

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 ...

A group of researchers has recently made an astounding discovery. Using an innovative imaging technique, an international team of scientists has uncovered remarkable details of a pterosaur’s soft ...

DICKINSON — Paleontologists at the Badlands Dinosaur Museum in North Dakota are continuing their groundbreaking research on a remarkably well-preserved Lambeosaurus fossil, first discovered in 2000.

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Some 445 million years ago, life on Earth was forever changed. During the geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over the supercontinent Gondwana, drying out many of the vast, shallow seas like a ...