Paleontologist and Geologist Dr. Ken Lacovara joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about fossils. Can we extract dinosaur DNA from fossils? How is crude oil made from fossils? Where ...

Were you the kid that spent hours digging in the dirt looking for treasures growing up? Or perhaps you’re still fascinated by the science of fossils and prehistoric creatures? Well, it’s not out of ...

Step aside, carbon dating. Paleontologists date fossils based on the clues in the rocks surrounding them. When paleontologists dig up a fossil from the ground, how do they figure out the age of the ...

Earlier this summer, researchers announced they found fossils that likely come from courting dinosaurs. To find more fossil evidence of prehistoric animals wooing and mating, scientists will have to ...

Fossils from more than 600 species can be found in the area dating back to 23 million years ago. Forgive Felicia Ludwig for getting all cosmic about it, but that’s just how she feels about fossil ...

“When we came across that, we all just kind of stared at each other for a minute, like ‘This is it,’” said Adrienne Coleman, whose 13-year-old daughter spotted the fossil during a family boat trip ...

(CNN) — It stands to reason that a 95 million-year-old tooth shipped to my home would have a rich past. But what ensued after I bought it online for about $100 revealed how, for such relics and those ...

Newtonsaurus cambrensis is very large, larger than most, if not all, contemporary predators. For a therapod dinosaur from the Triassic era to be so large is essentially unprecedented. Scientists in ...