For the past four decades, paleontologists thought ancient “blob” fossils found in Illinois were jellyfish, according to a Colorado museum. But it turns out, “we’ve been looking at them upside down,” ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

SANTIAGO, Chile -- More than 2 million years ago, scores of whales congregating off the Pacific Coast of South America mysteriously met their end. Maybe they became disoriented and beached themselves.

Sorting the largest collection of Ice Age fossils found anywhere on Earth is a mammoth undertaking. So the small staff overseeing the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles relies on an army of volunteers to ...

YAKUTSK, Russia -- -- YAKUTSK, Russia -- Every spring, Nikolai Petrov leads a squadron of motorboats along the banks of remote channels and rivers in northern Siberia, waiting for the split second ...

He is the Dick Tracy of the Mesozoic Age. No matter how softly dinosaurs trod millions of years ago, Dr. Edwin H. Colbert, curator of fossil reptiles of Manhattan’s American Museum of Natural History ...

For the past 44 years, paleontologists thought “blob” fossils found in Illinois were jellyfish, according to a Colorado museum. Turns out, they are sea anemones. Illustration by Julius Csotonyi, ...

SANTIAGO, Chile - More than 2 million years ago, scores of whales congregating off the Pacific Coast of South America mysteriously met their end. Maybe they became disoriented and beached themselves.