fossils

New dating methods have added more evidence that these fossils date to 23,000 years ago, pushing back migration to the Americas by thousands of years.

Decades before paleontology’s formal establishment, Black and Native Americans discovered—and correctly identified—millennia-old fossils.

In a forbidding Wyoming desert, scientists and fortune hunters search for the surprisingly intact remains of horses and other creatures that lived long ago.

Fossil Cycad National Monument held America's richest deposit of petrified cycadeoid plants, until it didn't.

How geology shaped American culture.

The Civil War's vast death toll joined Earth's deep time story, magnifying its meaning as part of God's creative acts across eons.

How researchers analyzed limestone to determine the age and origins of the grave maker, which marked the final resting place of a prominent Jamestown colonist.

An island eroding into the bay offers tantalizing clues about when and how humans first made their way into North America.

Dan Flores reminds us that modern North Americans still walk in the footsteps of our fellow animals.

As two warring bone hunters sought to destroy each other, they laid the foundations for our knowledge of dinosaurs.

A pile of mammoth bones offers evidence that people were living in the region as early as 37,000 years ago.

Why Barnum Brown could not stop collecting.

In Hell Creek, Montana, with a lot of dynamite.

For centuries, the infamous Boss Tweed was blamed for destroying its dino-models—but what really happened is even weirder.

An archaeologist explains why a museum keeps so many bones from the Jones-Miller site, an ice age bison kill on the North American plains.

Researchers create massive genealogical network dating back 100,000 years

Coming to love Puritan poetry is an odd aesthetic journey. It's the sort of thing you expect people partial to bowties and gin gimlets to get involved with.

"Although the lesson of progressivism took a while to sink in, over time Grinnell resolved to do whatever he could to forestall the sundering of his world."