

Science May 31

Sneak a peek at the Smithsonian's new Hall of Fossils. After a four-year renovation, the hall brings back old favorites and introduces lessons for humanity's future.
By Vicky Stein
Science Apr 05

In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, this self-taught paleontologist has been looking for dinosaurs in creek beds and rivers for more than 30 years, and has become something of a legend in the field. Then, outside a NASA…
By Pamela Kirkland
Science Jan 28

The jaw fragment suggests our species began traveling abroad 50,000 years earlier than previously thought.
By Kate Wong, Scientific American
Science Jun 10

The findings may push back the origin of our species by more than 100,000 years and challenge leading ideas about where and how our lineage evolved.
By Kate Wong, Scientific American
In a new study, researchers have used lasers and simple cameras to uncover the body shape and texture of 200 fossils of a small, feathered dinosaur named Anchiornis huxleyi.
A pair of 99 million-year-old fossils reveal Cretaceous baby birds with finger claws and adultlike feathers.
Sep 10

Scientists have discovered a new human-like species, deep in a cave system in South Africa. Researchers have said that the discovery could change our conception of human ancestry. For more on the discovery, Jeffrey Brown speaks to Jamie Shreeve of…
Apr 07

By Justin Scuiletti
After more than a century of extinction in the scientific community, the name Brontosaurus may be ready to return to the ranks of its dinosaur brethren.
Mar 20

By Justin Scuiletti
Before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, the region we now know as North Carolina was ruled by a fearsome, bipedal, 9-foot-long crocodile ancestor known as Carnufex carolinensis, or the "Carolina Butcher."…
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