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) ...

In paleontology and paleobiology, we ask questions about the evolution of life that range across all geological time and span from individual species to the whole of life. We study the evolution of ...

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.

In February, the Mountain America Museum of Ancient Life, a discovery center at Thanksgiving Point, will be reopening the entrance gallery to feature six brand-new exhibits. And, if you have someone ...

Archaeology and paleontology may both involve digging into the past, but they uncover very different stories. Archaeology focuses on human history and culture, while paleontology explores prehistoric ...

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 ...

Paleontologist Xu Xing has discovered so many dinosaurs he’s lost count. A spreadsheet he brings up on the desktop computer in his fossil-filled office in Beijing stops at 57, but Xu says he thinks it ...

Nestled in the foothills away from the city, the Webb Schools, a private boarding school in Claremont, had been closed to students, staff and the public like many institutions over the past year. But ...

Nestled in the foothills away from the city, the Webb Schools, a private boarding school in Claremont, had been closed to students, staff and the public like many institutions over the past year. But ...