The team named the new genus Bastetodon partly in reference to the cat-headed ancient Egyptian goddess Bastet, in honor of where the specimen was unearthed and of the feline-like snout of the ancient ...

When the skeletal remains of a giant ground sloth were first unearthed in 1796, the discovery marked one of the earliest ...

Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery.

Recently, paleontologists Dr. John-Paul Zonneveld, Dr. Sarah Naone, and Dr. Brooks Britt described the discovery and ...

People assume that with all this dinophilia, and with all the money spent on dinosaur paraphernalia, paleontology must be rolling in dough. Nothing could be further from the truth. In reality, ...

A nearly complete skull of the creature was found in the Egyptian desert. Its lineage indicates that it was a top carnivore ...

Press Release Park Paleontologist, Coastal National Park Leader Celebrated with National Conservation Awards Nov 2024 The Stephen T. Mather Award, first presented in 1984, is named after the first ...

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That's a pretty good quality to have when you're the director of paleontology at Dinosaur Ridge in Morrison — and fossils are literally your job. Now Atwater has written a kids' book about fossils, ...

Exploring the striking, vast landscapes of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument as a young girl, a Southern Utah University senior and budding paleontologist says the land connects the past ...