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Today, I'm excited to share my thoughts on "When Dinosaurs Conquered the Skies," the fourth book in a fascinating series about evolution from Quarto Publishing Group. If you enjoyed "When The Whales Walked" and "When Plants Took Over the Planet," or if

This week was jam-packed with news, so instead of only talking about one story, I’m going to cover 4 of them. First: A new catfish from the Upper Eocene (56-33 million years ago) of Egypt. This [paper] was published by lead author Sanaa El-Sayed, who is now the first

Whales are an amazing group of animals. They evolved from hoofed animals, like hippos, deer, giraffes, and cows. The fossil record shows us how whales went from being hoofed animals to the aquatic giants we see today. They gradually shortened their arms and legs, lengthened their bodies, and changed their

A few weeks ago I talked about a fossil of the earliest spider relative. This week, I’m going to continue talking about arthropods (the group containing spiders, insects, scorpions, trilobites, crustaceans, millipedes, and others). In early April (2016), an [article] was published describing a new arthropod from the Silurian

Craters are scars left on the surface of a planet or moon, formed by meteorite impacts. These scars can tell us a lot about the geology of the planet or moon and they are usually very prominent. If you look at the moon, you can see dark and light areas.

The fossil record is full of gaps. This is because only a minor portion of life on Earth died in the right conditions to become a fossil. We, as paleontologists, work with the information we have to understand what Earth was like millions of years ago. We always hope to