Metabolism quietly governs every living body. It shapes how organisms grow, reproduce, heal, and age. Because metabolism links closely to body size, temperature, and diet, it also sets limits on how ...

A newly described Patagonian fossil reveals the evolutionary origins and global spread of the tiny alvarezsaur dinosaurs.

Professor Loren E. Babcock examines the key processes of fossilization in paleontology, highlighting the critical role of ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Field Museum has over 30 million artifacts in its possession but less than 1 percent of those objects are on display. However, more and more of those hidden objects are coming ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BROOMFIELD — Past fields of yellow wildflowers, tall grass and prairie dog burrows, an Adams County geology teacher, four of his students and the Broomfield ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 25—By Dan Gunderson, Minnesota Public Radio News A small storefront on Main Street in Blue Earth has been home to many ...

Looking again through the magnifying lens at the fossil’s surface, one of us, Sabrina Curran, took a deep breath. Illuminated by a strong light positioned nearly parallel to the surface of the bone, ...

An unprecedented fossil of a baby dinosaur curled up perfectly inside its egg is shedding more light on the links between dinosaurs and birds. The 70-million-year-old fossil preserves the embryonic ...

Can a skeleton be a storyteller? When it comes to dinosaur bones, the answer is yes — if you know how to listen! Prehistoric fossils are a wealth of critical scientific information. Everything from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHICAGO — Sixty-five miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones movie breaks up the ...