New dinosaur Enigmacursor clarifies taxonomy and highlights overlooked species in the Morrison Formation. A small dinosaur ...

At my kindergarten graduation circa 2005, I stood watching my friends confidently announce their future dreams. One by one, ...

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Do we need another “Jurassic Park” movie? I think you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who’d reply in the affirmative to that ...

A 12-year-old’s thrilling discovery of a 69-million-year-old dinosaur fossil in Alberta is filling crucial gaps in paleontological history.

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Missouri’s Bluff Dwellers Cave is like stepping into nature’s secret laboratory—a subterranean wonderland where water and stone have been collaborating on a masterpiece for millions of years. When ...

Can an asteroid, or two asteroids, crash into Earth in the next seven years? Scientists are observing these space rocks to ...

Paleontologist and Geologist Dr. Ken Lacovara joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about fossils. Can we ...

The mind-controlling “zombie” fungus, which served as the inspiration for the video game and post-apocalyptic TV show The ...

Astronomers have discovered a galaxy that has been "frozen in time" for billions of years. Like a celestial dinosaur fossil, ...

A million years ago, in 1993, Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park” unleashed two menaces on the planet. The first, of course, ...