In the fourth episode of our Stones & Bones video series, National Geographic digital editor Nicholas St. Fleur examines the ...

Mammals and dinosaurs coexisted on Earth until a catastrophic event 66 million years ago killed 75% of life on the planet.

New analyses of fossilized jaws reveal that massive, kraken-like octopuses once hunted alongside other marine predators.

You know a place has stories to tell when it’s been attracting visitors for over 10,000 years, and Big Bone Lick State ...

One of the park’s most popular features is the fossil dig area, where children can pretend to be paleontologists excavating ...

In Los Angeles, scientists are delighted to decode one of the richest fossil records on Earth A visitor gazes at a statue of a giant short-faced bear. At around 11 feet tall, the Ice Age animal was ...

April 3 (UPI) --Those born on this date are under the sign of Aries. They include: -- Historian/writer Washington Irving in 1783 -- Writer/naturalist John Burroughs in 1837 -- Actor Leslie Howard in ...

March 27 (UPI) --Those born on this date are under the sign of Aries. They include: -- Teacher Patty Smith Hill, who wrote the words for "Happy Birthday to You," in 1868 -- Architect Ludwig Mies van ...

A fossilized skull and jawbones found in Niger belonged to a creature that had a large, bony crest atop its head and lived some 95 million years ago. Named Spinosaurus mirabilis, it is the first ...

Daly joked that his daughters were wowed by the mention, despite him appearing on television "every day since 1997" Julian Dakdouk/NBC via Getty; Warner Bros./Delivered by Online USA Carson Daly says ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Paul C. Sereno, University of Chicago (THE CONVERSATION) My fixation on a small, ...