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

A Utah paleontologist is sharing her experience after completing excavation work tied to the first dinosaur discovery in the ...

In 2000, researchers described an odd fossil found not far from Chicago. It had a round body, finlike structures on one end and a tangle of arms. The fossil was classified as an octopus and named ...

Fossilized dinosaur footprints have been discovered on the ceiling of a cave in southern France, overturning expectations about how such traces are preserved. Found deep underground, these tracks were ...

As the year comes to an end, we are looking back at some of the coolest and weirdest fossils in the news this year and what we learned from them! Hosted by: Stefan Chin (he/him) Huge thanks go to the ...

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have acquired dogs from one another. By Emily Anthes In the waning days of the ...

Invertebrate paleontology is the scientific discipline within paleontology that investigates the fossil record of animals lacking a vertebral column, including groups such as mollusks, arthropods, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A dinosaur covered in hollow spikes like a porcupine’s spines—a feature ...

The Allosaurus fragilis stands near the entrance of the BYU Museum of Paleontology. The Allosaurus fragilis was the most common predator in Western North America 150 million years ago, according to ...

Fossils are remarkable for their ability to viscerally connect us with long-lost life. The bulk of a Tyrannosaurus rex skull, the biting point of a shark tooth, the startling familiarity of a hominin ...

A British dinosaur convention is banning some paleontologists named in the Jeffrey Epstein files from attending DinoCon – as the global scientific community becomes the latest to grapple with the ...