Walk into Christian Kaleta’s Mesa store, and you’ll be greeted by a sight you won’t find anywhere else in the retail world: Stan the Tyrannosaurus Rex, aka T. Rex, a $20,000 dinosaur skull replica.

There’s just something about dinosaurs. They’re big, mysterious, and long gone—mostly. “Paleontology is a bit like piecing together this puzzle of the past,” says Kristen Olson, senior coordinator of ...

HAVERHILL — Children gathered at Haverhill Public Library last week to make their own fossils using water, salt and flour. The interactive offering is one of many on the library’s calendar. Painting ...

Most kids have a natural curiosity about sharks − especially their sharp and abundant teeth. Our team had the idea to use the appeal of this charismatic apex predator to teach how scientists use ...

Someone still reveling in single-digit birthdays might have trouble relating to the age of things at the George C. Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits. There’s a 14,000-year-old juniper tree that’s ...

Denver Museum of Nature & Science’s Curator of Paleontology Dr. Tyler Lyson and the trio of young fossil finders, Liam Fisher, Jessin Fisher, and Kaiden Madsen, who discovered the remains of a ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Christine Wusylko, University of Florida and Pavlo Antonenko, University of Florida ...