Paleontology News

I think Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a great book because it has a lot of funny parts and some serious parts when it is appropriate in the story.

Wallingford-based poet James Carter was reading some action rhymes from his now book Hey, Little Bug.

An Eastern box turtle was among the burrowing animals that visited the library's summer reading program.

Inspired by the remains on display at the Natural History Museum in Paris's Les Jardins des Plantes, Louis Vuitton has put on display a selection of gilded dinosaur skeletons in its 5th Avenue Maison's windows.

SCHOOL children took part in workshops with street artist Andy Council to design dinosaurs, inspired by the return of 12 life-like animatronic dinosaurs to Bristol Zoo.

The Richland Public Library's summer reading program will feature dinosaurs and fossils from 3-4 p.m. June 25 at the library.

"Dig it up, dig it up, dig it up, up, up ..." is the song that more than 150 children and adults sang at the kickoff of the Otsego County Library's Summer Reading series "Dig into Reading" last week.

They may be terrible paleontologists, but on The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here , Alice in Chains prove that grunge fossils can still churn out slithery menace.

The discovery comes as a study of ancient kangaroo teeth from south-eastern Queensland suggests that between two and a half and five million years ago, the region was not arid as previously thought.

Here's the schedule for tonight's Top of the Park, the free , outdoor component of the Ann Arbor Summer Festival .

Why do humans make art? And why do we build museums to house these objects? Tim Stone considers these questions at the Dark Mofo opening of MONA's new exhibition The Red Queen.

The White House and NASA on Tuesday will ask the public for help finding asteroids that potentially could slam into the Earth with catastrophic consequences.

Mind-bending trees twisted into unbelievable shapes These curious living trees have fused together into bizarre contortions both by accident and design, Daily Mail reports.

People could see themselves walking with dinosaurs from 130 million years ago with a new mobile phone app, MSN News reports.

A herd of dinosaurs are trapped in rock outside Arches National Park, and state paleontologists need a helicopter to bring it back to the lab to see what's really inside.

The free program is for ages 6 through 10. Kids can hear what it's like to dig for fossils, then chip away to find dinosaur bones that they can make into a model.

A two-week dinosaur dig in outback Queensland has unearthed what has been described as a "treasure trove" of massive fossils.

The muscle arrangement of an ancient fish may have included abdominal muscles, previously thought to be only found in land animals, an international team of paleontologists said.

A "COLD snap" that made the dinosaurs shiver 116 million years ago caused a crisis in the oceans similar to the effects of global warming.

Stories and movies about dinosaurs are fascinating. Is it because of their great size or odd structures, such as plates and spikes on the Stegosaurus or serrated knife-like teeth of a Tyrannosaurus? Perhaps it is because they are no longer roaming the planet, because of extinction.