Paleontology

Around 252 million years ago tardigrades may have escaped extinction using this one weird trick

Reptile teeth have long been considered simple and cheap because the animals replace them regularly. That isn’t so, Komodo dragons show

Scientists reveal the face of Australia’s massive, extinct “giga-goose”

Fossilized vertebrae that were found in an Indian coal mine belonged to a gigantic and previously unknown snake species

A Dune-loving worm paleontologist makes the case that worms have been just as important on Earth as they are in the blockbuster film

This newfound crab species' body size is also larger than any other fossil crab—but its modern day descendent is even bigger

The ancient reptile Dinocephalosaurus had a neck of mythic proportions

Paleontology is rife with fake fossils that are made to cash in on illegal trade but end up interfering with science

Special assemblages of minuscule fossils bring dinosaur ecosystems to life

A newly identified “chicken from hell” species suggests dinosaurs weren’t sliding toward extinction before the fateful asteroid hit

Sometime between C.E. 1100 and 1700, a Massospondylus dinosaur bone was found and carried to a rock shelter in Lesotho, marking the earliest known human discovery of a dinosaur fossil

Permian period petroleum helped to preserve minute scraps of pebbly hide that probably belonged to a lizardlike creature