Sep 14 A dinosaur fit for land and water: Spinosaurus unveiled By Carey Reed Newly-unveiled fossils indicate a dinosaur known as Spinosaurus aegyptiacus was built to live part of the time in water, according to a report published online for the journal Science. Continue reading
Jul 16 First steps of a baby Stegosaurus, captured in 3-D By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy A baby stegosaurus' first steps 150 million years ago can now be modeled in 3D with a few clicks on a camera phone. The technology makes studying dinosaur footprints cheap and easy. Continue reading
Feb 01 Watch ‘A Flintstone Moment’: Mammoth Amount of Ice Age Fossils Found in Colorado 'A Flintstone Moment': Mammoth Amount of Ice Age Fossils Found in Colorado… Continue watching
Feb 01 Watch What is Liquefaction? Paleontologist Kirk Johnson explains liquefaction… Continue watching
Jan 18 Rediscovering Charles Darwin By Jenny Marder Last spring, a British scientist reached into the back of a cabinet and pulled out a fossil with a signature that looked an awful lot like Charles Darwin's. Turns out it was. Here is a sample of the fossils, which… Continue reading
Nov 29 Watch In Colorado, Ice Age ‘Fossils Were Pouring Out of the Ground’ In Colorado, scientists made a very big and plentiful find of bones dating back to the Ice Age. Tom Bearden reports on what kind of fossils were unearthed and what the new findings can tell us. Continue watching
Nov 27 In China, Scientists Discover Oldest Turtle Fossil Ever Found By PBS News Hour Which came first, the land turtle or the sea turtle? Scientists aren't sure, but a newly-discovered fossil of a 220-million-year-old turtle seems to tip the scale toward aquatic evolution, and may help explain how turtles evolved their shells. Continue reading
Feb 22 Florida Schools Will Teach Evolution, but with ‘Theory’ Caveat By PBS News Hour The Florida Board of Education has approved new science standards that explicitly include the word 'evolution' for the first time, but last-minute revisions kindled controversy over religious and political tinkering in the science classroom. Continue reading
Feb 21 Watch Pittsburgh Museum Reinvents Model of Dinosaur Exhibit The Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh renovated its dinosaur exhibit to provide a more realistic picture of how dinosaurs lived and interacted with one another more than 100 million years ago. Continue watching
Mar 29 New Study Finds Dinosaurs’ Extinction Had Little Impact on Mammal Evolution By PBS News Hour The extinction of dinosaurs over 65 million years ago did not foster a breeding ground for ancestors of modern-day mammals, as scientists had previously thought, according to a study released Thursday in the journal Nature. Continue reading