Fred the Mastodon’s Tusks Reveal a Life of Fighting and Roaming
Over 13,000 years ago, an American mastodon roamed what is today the American Midwest. Year after year, he returned to…
Over 13,000 years ago, an American mastodon roamed what is today the American Midwest. Year after year, he returned to…
Head-butting is an ancient and widespread form of conflict resolution. Dinosaurs like Pachycephalosaurus had sturdy skulls, and knocking heads remains…
Twenty million years ago, a predator with a mouth like a subway door and teeth the size of your palm…
Paleontologists have long wrangled with the question of dinosaur metabolisms — whether they ran hot, like modern birds and mammals…
It may not be a Matisse, or a Warhol, but this multimillion-dollar sale at Christie’s comes from the hand of…
Close your eyes and picture being face-to-face with a saber-toothed cat. Most likely you’ll see in your frightened mind’s eye…
The sturdy, calcite-infused exoskeletons of trilobites and their segmented shells are nearly ubiquitous in fossil deposits from the Cambrian Period…
Many people know them as agile bipedal dinosaurs with menacing claws and scrunched-up arms, hunting children through a kitchen in…
Tiktaalik first became known to humans in 2004, after skulls and other bones of at least 10 specimens turned up…
It’s not unusual today to find swans on rivers and lakes, splitting their time between pulling up water plants and…