Paleontology

dinosaurs

The most expensive dinosaur is generally considered to be the Tyrannosaurus rex named Sue, purchased in 1997 by the Field Museum in Chicago for approximately $8.36 million in a...

prehistoric animals

The phrase Ice Age animals commonly refers to large mammals that lived during the Pleistocene epoch, the most recent ice age cycle spanning about 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago...

science

The phrase Ice Age characters often evokes images of giants slouched over snowy landscapes in movies, yet in science it refers to species and peoples that lived during past glac...

science

Fossilized animal teeth are preserved remains of once-living organisms that provide durable evidence of ancient diets, environments, and evolutionary change. Because enamel and...

science

Dinosaur fire refers to wildfire events that occur in regions containing dinosaur fossils, trackways, or sedimentary deposits, as well as in modern landscapes that once hosted d...

Science & Nature

Dire wolves (Smilodon fatalis, often mislabeled as Canis dirus) were large Pleistocene carnivores, but were they the biggest wolf? Compared with the modern gray wolf (Canis lupu...

science-and-nature

A mammoth is an extinct member of the elephant family that lived during the Pleistocene epoch and into the early Holocene. These large, tusked mammals are known from fossils and...

science

The question of when was the most recent dinosaur fossil found does not have one date, because new specimens are described continuously in different regions and are published mo...

science

Dinosaur fossils vary dramatically in how much of the original animal they preserve, and the most complete specimens offer an almost three-dimensional record of bones, sometimes...