Archaeology

The following project constitutes a half-hour activity for 3-, 4-, or 5-year olds. It includes the entire process from finding fossils to putting the recovered pieces together like a puzzle to drawing our best guess at what it looked like in life.

The 180-million-year-old fossils suggest that shallow-water animals may have originated from deep-sea ancestors

Scientists in Australia have warned that we’d better get hopping and slow down climate change if we want to prevent the world’s smallest kangaroo from going extinct.

A maverick aristocrat's ideas about dinosaur evolution turn out to have been decades ahead of their time

"Pinocchio rex" roamed southern China just before the extinction of the dinosaurs

Computer models suggest that plant-eating dinosaurs called therizinosaurs used their claws for digging, grasping or piercing plants

Bite marks on fossils coupled with an analysis of skull strength suggests that crocodilians were capable of using "death rolls" to dismember prey

The ship had been carrying gold to New York City when it sank in 1857

The world's fourth-largest island divulges fossils that could revolutionize scientific views on the origins of dinosaurs and mammals

Yesterday's big reptiles can help us figure out how the human era is shaping up By Mary H. Schweitzer

Mongolia's Gobi Desert contains one of the richest assemblages of dinosaur remains ever found. Paleontologists are uncovering much of the region's history

By analyzing previously overlooked fossils and by taking a second look at some old finds, paleontologists are providing the first glimpses of the actual behavior of the tyrannosaurs