Quiz (answers to quiz are at the end of this blog): 1) The word “brooding” when talking about dinosaurs refers to: a) A way of...

The most expensive fossil to ever be sold and the implications of privately sold specimens.

Fossil Friday goes to the newest discover of the Cymbospondylus youngorum that lived 246 million years ago.

You might not have guessed it, but among paleontologists who study fossil reefs, Nevada is quite famous. The earliest reefs on Earth, those

The 1993 movie Jurassic Park (yes, it was really 28 years ago ) introduced us to the idea of obtaining DNA from fossils and doing interestin

Paleontologists from the LVNHM are actively working on a 15-million-year-old fossil site (Miocene Epoch) in the Horse Spring Formation, nort

Seventy-five years ago, in 1946, an American artist named Charles R. Knight published a book titled, Life Through the Ages. You may not have

As a Smithsonian Affiliate, we like to explore all that the Smithsonian has to offer. Did you know that you can take a virtual tour of the N

Megalodons (technically Otodus megalodon) are an extinct species of school-bus-size sharks that lived between about 23 million years ago and

Paleontologists often encounter a jumble of fragile fossil bones at an excavation site. Time may be short and the weather may be uncomfortab

Dire wolves, which recently became famous in pop culture via 'Game of Thrones,' were real wolves! They were probably the dominant predators

Some bird eggs are very colorful, such as the blue robin egg in the first photo (from the LVNHM bird egg collection). But no other egg-layin

Dr. Rowland back for our first #FossilFriday of 2021! Does it seem like the years are flying by, with each year going faster than the one be

Early in 1797, Thomas Jefferson was still waiting to find out whether he had won the election (he lost to John Adams), when he unexpectedly

Dr. Rowland here for another #fossilfriday Since we are now in election season, it’s a good time to tell the story of a mysterious box of b

The first museum in the world devoted to 🦖 dinosaurs and other extinct animals was almost built in New York’s Central Park!

Who made the first sculpture of Nevada’s State Fossil? It was Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, a Nineteenth-Century British artist/sculptor