Today, several colleagues and I named a really cute little dinosaur—Aquilops americanus. At around 106 million years old, Aquilops turns out to be…

I tend to think of fish brains as fairly unremarkable. Too simple relative to mammal brains, too un-dinosaur-y relative to dinosaur brains…

One of my favorite things about the Internet Age, among many favorite things, is the way in which it facilitates access to…

Fossil feces are the stuff of legend. Not only do they have the “gee-whiz-gross” factor, but they also preserve evidence of diet…

Open access publication has, for the most part, long since ceased to be controversial. Although it certainly isn’t without its minor issues…

Those poor tail bones, always getting shortened and lost during the course of evolution. A long tail is the default condition for…

Every living thing has a remarkable evolutionary history, stretching back through the eons. Sometimes it’s fun to think about common plants and…

Fossils are part of our planet’s natural heritage. These traces of organisms that lived long before the founding of any nation are…

For a long time now, I’ve been beating the drum of “provide your data.” If you’re willing to take take a whole…

Breathing life back into lost worlds is not an easy task–how do you paint, draw, or sculpt an animal that no human…