Dave’s Down to Earth Rock Shop has been around since 1970, but the contents of its basement have witnessed all of human history and another three billion years beyond that. Featuring gemstones, ...

Apatosaurus is one of the most famous dinosaurs ever discovered, yet parts of its story remain surprisingly unsettled. Fossils from the Late Jurassic reveal a giant built for power and scale, but key ...

Despite growing into the largest animals ever to walk on land, sauropods began life small, exposed, and alone. Fossil evidence suggests their babies were frequently eaten by multiple predators, making ...

Babies and very young sauropods – the long-necked, long-tailed plant-eaters that in adulthood were the largest animals to ...

It may have been suicidal for a predator to go after a healthy adult Brachiosaurus, a behemoth weighing perhaps 60 tons that was a member of the long- ...

Timothy G. Bromage receives funding from The Leakey Foundation. Blood tests are useful tools for doctors and scientific researchers: they can reveal a lot about a body’s health. Usually, a blood ...

An extraordinary 512-million-year-old fossil site has been discovered in southern China, preserving in vivid detail almost an entire ecosystem from a time shortly after Earth’s first mass extinction ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Monument staff work on excavated dinosaur fossils in the Quarry Exhibit Hall Parking Lot. Workers at Dinosaur National Monument ...

Parking lot construction at Colorado's Dinosaur National Monument unearthed new fossils last fall, the first discovery at the monument in more than 100 years, according to the National Park Service.

Before trees came along some 400 million years ago, our planet’s landscape was dominated by enigmatic, spire-shaped life-forms that towered more than 25 feet above the ground. Their trunklike fossils ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Parking lot construction at Colorado’s Dinosaur National Monument unearthed new fossils last fall, the first discovery at the monument in more than 100 years ...