The United States finalizes the Louisiana Purchase from France, adding the land from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains to its territory. Meriwether Lewis, of the legendary duo Lewis and ...

BYU's Paleontology Museum holds one of the largest fossil collections in the world. Many of the classic dinosaurs most people know about were found in Utah, according to Boisvert. (Cameron Cook) ...

One otherwise unmemorable day, Donald Henderson, then a student of geophysics, took a different route through the stacks of his university library. He was startled by a book he’d never seen before.

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - North Middle School 7th graders got a look into the past with a presentation on Paleontology. Students ...

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A new raptor-like dinosaur from some 70 million years ago that ate fish and behaved like modern herons has been unearthed from southern Patagonia. The new species, which has been named Kank australis, ...

The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) was founded in 1940 for individuals with an interest in vertebrate paleontology. SVP (as it is known to its members) now has almost 2,000 members. The ...

Even before linkurl:__Jurassic Park__;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/ brought dinosaurs to cinematic life, the ancient reptiles were fascinating to most people ...

ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTER, AND THIS MORNING WE’RE HEARING FROM A CERTIFIED PALEONTOLOGIST. FIRST WARNING METEOROLOGIST ERIC BURRIS IS AT THE SCIENCE CENTER LEARNING ABOUT HOW FOSSILS ARE FORMED. HEY ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Nicole Peavey was 5 years old when she decided she wanted to be a paleontologist. At the time, it would be another decade before “Jurassic Park” hit theaters ...

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