The World from PRX

paleontology

Almost 2,000 paleoburrows have been found across South America, mostly in the Brazilian states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, which border Uruguay and Argentina.
Science
Get a glimpse of southern Brazil’s paleoburrows — dug by prehistoric animals
The dueling dinosaurs were fossilized while apparently locked in battle.
Science
‘Dueling dinos’ set off a long legal battle and a scientific debate
an illustration of a dinosaur
Five reasons why 2018 was a big year for paleontology
sloth
In fossilized footprints, evidence of humans, a giant sloth, and ‘the killer blow’
Phytosaur fossil
Science
Rare fossils could face trouble outside new Bears Ears National Monument boundaries
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.
Arts
Turns out, dinosaurs probably had feathers. This artist is using science to draw more accurate pictures.
A man looks at a Neanderthal fossil at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
Science
A new fossil may date humanity’s ancestor further back than we thought
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.
Science
A fossil flexes its muscle in Newfoundland, but it can’t keep thieves away
Science
Meet the new horse-headed, 35-foot-long, beaked Deinocheirus mirificus
An artist's impression of feathered dinosaurs
Environment
Was T. Rex actually pink and covered in feathers?
From an evolutionary standpoint, we tend to associate ourselves with apes. But we all have a lot in common with fish.
Environment
From gills to gonads, you’re more like a fish than you may believe
From an evolutionary standpoint, we tend to associate ourselves with apes. But we all have a lot in common with fish.
Environment
From gills to gonads, you’re more like a fish than you may believe
Gurche - Shanidar
Environment
A scientist-artist recreates human ancestors by studying their bones
Arts, Culture & Media
Ancient Monkey: Newly Discovered Primate Sheds Light on Primate Origins
Arts, Culture & Media
Australian Scientists Feud over Stampeding Dinosaurs
Arts, Culture & Media
Panama Canal Expansion Exposes Fossilized Treasures, Revealing Rare Glimpse Into Earth’s History
Arts, Culture & Media
World’s Oldest Fossils on Display in Houston
Arts, Culture & Media
Scientists Claim To Have Found Earliest Fossils
Museum Message
How to Build a Dinosaur
Emerging Science Note/Ocean Life Evolution
Trilobites
Environment
Survivor: Planet Earth
Arts, Culture & Media
Global Hit
Arts, Culture & Media
Geo answer
Environment
Illegal dinosaur bones