Fossils
Showing Their Age
Dating the Fossils and Artifacts that Mark the Great Human Migration
Where Dinosaurs Roamed
Footprints at one of the nation's oldest—and most fought over—fossil beds offer new clues to how the behemoths lived
How to Make a Dodo
Biologist Beth Shapiro has figured out a recipe for success in the field of ancient DNA research
Head Case
Two fossils found in Kenya raise evolutionary questions
Teeth Tales
Fossils tell a new story about the diversity of hominid diets
Neil Shubin, Paleontologist, University of Chicago
The "missing link?" At least a step in a new direction
Dinosaur Shocker
Probing a 68-million-year-old T. rex, Mary Schweitzer stumbled upon astonishing signs of life that may radically change our view of the ancient beasts
Rethinking Neanderthals
Research suggests they fashioned tools, buried their dead, maybe cared for the sick and even conversed. But why, if they were so smart, did they disappear?
The Old Man of Olduvai Gorge
Irrepressible Louis Leakey, patriarch of the fossil-hunting family, championed the search for human origins in Africa, attracting criticism and praise
Stories in Stone Read From Ancient Leaves
A Smithsonian scientist studies the relationship between Eocene insects and the plants they ate
The Great Martian Fossil Hunt
If bacterial life did arise on an Earth-like early Mars, we should be able to find its fossil remains preserved in those red rocks
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