Founder and Executive director of the Edelman Fossil Park of Rowan University Paleontologist Dr. Kenneth Lacovara joins WIRED to answer the internet's questions about the phenomenon of extinction.

The finding has been revolutionary for those who study human evolution, and it is still spawning new research to this day. Johanson, a paleontologist, is the founding director of ASU’s Institute ...

What's it like to be a field paleontologist? Searching for fossils is perceived as both glamorous and tedious, and is played out within a rubric of illuminating our deepest history. Aa Aa Aa "What ...

Someone who is fascinated by the flora, fauna and creatures of the distant past and who is inspired by the wonder of nature might consider studying paleontology. Paleontology focuses on the many ...

Paleontologists who study earth’s ancient ... and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay,” Gould noted in his 1997 book, “Wonderful ...

After re-examining fossils found in East Asia, scientists have possibly identified a new ancient human species called 'Homo ...

Alan Walker, an anatomist at Pennsylvania State University who specializes in early human studies. He and Dr. Meave Leakey, a paleontologist at the National Museums of Kenya, who is Richard Leakey ...

or the methods used by paleontologists. The Human Fossil Record room focuses on the paleoanthropological evidence for hominin evolution over the last 7 million years. Some articles describe how ...