Encased within a series of 300-million-year-old coal ball fossils lies an intricate record of ecological interactions. For Scott Lakeram, a paleobiology fellow at the National Museum of Natural ...

However, the earliest evolutionary history of birds has long been obscured by a highly fragmentary fossil record, with Archaeopteryx being the only widely accepted Jurassic bird. The evolutionary tree ...

“When it came time for me to pick a career path, my dad very sweetly said, ‘You’re not very good at the rest of school—do you want to go to art school?’ and he helped me find an art school.

Because we wanted the sales stopped. We didn’t want a black market. I think the fossil record is part of our collective natural heritage, and it’s not for sale.” Corbin Rolfe is an avid ...