Paleontology News

Although this pterosaur was large, with an estimated 23-foot wingspan, other pterosaurs, such as the enormous Quetzalcoatlus, grew to even larger sizes.

Tomorrow sees the return of the popular 'Dino Day - the Jurassic Years!' Activities for children of all ages to enjoy will include a dinosaur egg hunt, dinosaur mask making, making your very own 'concertina dinosaurus' and face painting.

French artist Gentil Garcon has teamed up with paleontologist Francois Escuilie to create something we never thought we'd see -- a real-life representation of Pac-Man's skull.

A big tech meteor has crashed into the economic landscape and changed the business climate forever.

Say an EKG machine is monitoring your heart, when it suddenly flatlines. You'd be keenly interested to know whether your heart had stopped or the machine had simply gone on the fritz.

If you live in Pittsburgh and have visited the Carnegie Museum of Natural History you probably know what the "Bone Wars" were all about.

Dinosaur World in Plant City, just outside Orlando, is home to 150 lifesize dinosaurs, a fossil dig, gift shops, a picnic area, a skeleton garden, a movie cave, playground and much more.

FEDERAL MP Darren Cheeseman wants the stories of Otway Ranges dinosaurs enshrined in a multi million-dollar museum on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria.

An ichthyosaur decomposes on the bottom of a Jurassic sea in a display at the Museum of Ancient Life.

Seagoing dinosaurs did not explode nearly as often as scientists believed, according to a new study called Float, Explode or Sink : Postmortem Fate of Lung-breathing Marine Vertebrates.

You're looking at Tokyo's newest landmark, the 'Dinosaur' Bridge . Officially known as the Tokyo Gate Bridge - providing a link from the capital to a landfill - it shows what actually happens when a government succeeds in spending $1.4 billion on a bridge to nowhere.

Using a hybrid of live-action and stop-motion animation, the campaign promotes UPS's new My Choice service, which provides customers with package information electronically, turning their old paper notices into a "dinosaur"a literally.

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University will be hosting a fossil-filled extravaganza this weekend, February 18-19, for the whole family.

Mountain View Lutheran School preschoolers Ellie Seol and Michael Kawan look at a life-size model of a Tyrannosaurus Rex on Wednesday at the Las Vegas Natural History Museum, whose officers hope to expand the museum across Las Vegas Boulevard.

There is some good news for agate hunters on the central Oregon coast and February 18 is the date for a time-tripping look on a 5,000-mile paleo journey from a pair of "paleo-nerds," happening at the Surftides in Lincoln City at 1:30 p.m. Presented by the Sitka Center, "Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway" features artist Ray Troll and scientist Dr.

In Josh Bazell's 2009 debut novel, "Beat the Reaper," Pietro Brnwa was an ex-hitman forced to dispatch old Mob demons while creating a new, respectable life for himself as Dr.

Ancient sponges, no bigger than a grain of sand found in 760 million year old rock may very well be "our earliest evolutionary ancestors," according to Anthony Prave, a geologist at the University of St.

The birth control debate, waged in public principally by men, has generated an active discussion among women of faith.

Barrett Valdes with the the Houston Museum of Natural Science stands inside of an Eremotherium in the new Paleontology Hall at the Houston Museum of Natural Science Wednesday, Feb.

A University of Missouri researcher has identified a new species of prehistoric crocodile.