Bones Discovered in Montana Are of the World’s Earliest Primate, Study Finds
Arranged as they were in life, they would fit comfortably on the tip of your…
Western Digs’ Top 5 Paleontology Stories of 2014
A red-headed mammoth, a cave piled high with ancient animal remains, and an unusual South…
Oldest Horned Dinosaur in North America Discovered in Montana
The oldest known species of horned dinosaur in North America has been identified from a…
Alaska’s First Fossil Ichthyosaur Found With Last Meal Still in Its Gut
New insights into life in the ancient oceans are emerging from a huge fossil found…
New Species of Giant Dinosaur From South Dakota ‘Fills Gap’ in America’s Fossil Record
It isn’t a brachiosaur — the type of giant, plant-eating dinosaur that had a titanic…
Allosaurus Died From Stegosaur Spike to the Crotch, Wyoming Fossil Shows
Analysis of an Allosaurus fossil from southern Wyoming shows that the giant meat-eater died from…
Rare Pterosaur Tracks Discovered in Alaska’s Denali National Park
Tracks left by a pterosaur that shambled across a muddy Alaskan floodplain some 70 million…
Tooth Found in Fossil Leg Bone Is ‘First Evidence’ of Clash Between Ancient Apex Predators
A tooth found embedded in a fossil leg bone is evidence of an unlikely battle…
Spiky, Scaly New Species of Ankylosaur Discovered in New Mexico
The remains of an unusual armored dinosaur found in New Mexico may “fill the gap”…
Wyoming Cave Yields a Trove of Ice Age Fossils — and Ancient Animal DNA
A team of enterprising and adventurous scientists in Wyoming has just finished the first in…
First Columbian Mammoth With Hair Discovered on California Farm
Artichoke farmers plowing their fields in northern California have reaped a strange harvest: a trove…
Dig This Video: What Really Killed the Dinosaurs?
An asteroid did it. For most of us, a giant space rock colliding with Earth…
Baby and Adult Dinosaur Tracks in Alaska Prove Duck-Bills Lived in ‘Social Herds,’ Study Says
Tiny baby dinosaur tracks discovered in Alaska may have big implications for our understanding of…
New Species of Horned Dinosaur With Flashy, Butterfly-Shaped Frill Discovered in Montana
One of the most abundant and diverse families of dinosaurs from the Ancient West has…
