Fossils

Museum of God

Arts, Culture & Media

An amateur paleontologist in Texas doesn’t see any conflict between the fossil record and his religious faith.

Contrary to classic depictions of a tyrannosaurus rex, paleoartist Gabriel Ugueto says that the massive carnivores likely were covered in small feathers on the top of their bodies.

Turns out, dinosaurs probably had feathers. This artist is using science to draw more accurate pictures.

Arts
A man looks at a Neanderthal fossil at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

A new fossil may date humanity’s ancestor further back than we thought

Science
Don Johnson, a former park ranger, on a fossil walk near his home on the Bonavista Peninsula in Newfoundland. As a kid, he used to climb on these rocks, but he says people here never know the fossils in these rocks were so significant.

A fossil flexes its muscle in Newfoundland, but it can’t keep thieves away

Science
An artist's impression of feathered dinosaurs

Was T. Rex actually pink and covered in feathers?

Environment

Almanac: Petrified Forest

This week, facts about the first petrified forest. One hundred and fifty years ago, an army captain looking for a way through the desert, came upon one of the largest areas of petrified trees in the world.