The "David H. Koch Hall of Fossils—Deep Time," a 31,000-square-foot dinosaur and fossil hall at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, takes visitors on a journey through deep time to ...

Far below the waves, where sunlight never reaches, a fragment of bone has forced scientists to redraw parts of the human family tree. An ancient jaw dredged from the seafloor between China and Taiwan, ...

Since the first scientific recognition of dinosaur fossils in the early 19th century, these animals have captivated our attention. How could the same planet that we call home have produced such ...

A paleontology curator preparing the skeleton of a baby dinosaur some seven or eight million years old for exhibition. Fossil found in Montana. Artist unknown, 1921. The Trump campaign slogan “Make ...

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For much of the twentieth century, a prevailing view in marine biology held that most major marine groups originated in sunlit, shallow waters and later colonized the deep sea. This perspective ...

Fossil forests and terrestrial palaeoecosystems provide essential insights into Earth's historical biological and ecological dynamics. As remnants of ancient flora, they help us trace back the ...

Dr. Luis Buatois (Ph.D.) traces a series of hexagons with his finger, following the path carved by tiny organisms millions of years ago that have long since left these unique fossils in their wake. It ...

There are also events about mushrooms, bats and much more at the National Museum of Natural History in September and October Jack Tamisiea A light gives a cast of the Nation’s T. rex’s skull a spooky ...

Artistic reconstruction of a newly hatched troodontid-like dinosaur resting among fragments of its eggshell (loosely based on Mongolian microtroodontid-type). These eggshells, when buried within ...