7+ hour, 15+ min ago  (480+ words) John "Jack" Horner, a famed paleontologist and technical advisor on the Jurassic Park film franchise, no longer works as a lecturer at Chapman University. The separation comes after Horner, who served as inspiration for the Dr. Alan Grant character in…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (622+ words) TORO TORO, Bolivia'Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from supernaturally strong monsters capable of sinking their claws even into solid stone. Then scientists came here in the 1960s and dispelled…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (354+ words) NEW YORK'Researchers have unearthed a pair of dinosaur mummies that seem to have been preserved in an unexpected way. The dinosaur remains are different from the wrapped mummies of Egypt or natural human mummies that get accidentally preserved in bogs…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (479+ words) Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, causing mass extinction. New research suggests dinosaur populations were still thriving in North America before the asteroid strike, but it's only one…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (425+ words) WASHINGTON'Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh glimpse into life on Earth at a time when flowering plants were just beginning to diversify and spread around the world. Almost…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (469+ words) Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series debuting Wednesday on PBS. It can seem of late that the experiment in evolution we call Homo sapiens has gone horribly wrong,…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (800+ words) Costa Mesa's Halecrest Park transformed into an archeological dig site Tuesday, as kids sifted through a massive sand pit with brushes and shovels, searching for replica saber-tooth cat and megalodon teeth and excavating the jawbone of a Tyrannosaurus rex. The…...