EditorialRobert DePalma, a paleontologist, gives a presentation on his findings of fossilized remains at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., on Wednesday, April 6, 2022. (Taylor Mickal/NASA via The New York Times)
EditorialA photo provided by the Government of Yukon, of Aisling Farrell, collections manager at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, left, and Susan Hewitson, a paleontologist with government of Yukon, fossil collecting at the Last Chance Creek placer mine in the Yukon. (Government of Yukon via The New York Times)
EditorialA photo provided by the Government of Yukon, of Aisling Farrell, collections manager at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, left, and Susan Hewitson, a paleontologist with government of Yukon, fossil collecting at the Last Chance Creek placer mine in the Yukon. (Government of Yukon via The New York Times)
EditorialSeahorse (Hippocampus punctutatus) and flying fish (Exocetus volitans). Handcolored engraving by Oudart from Orbigny's "Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle" (Universal Dictionary of Natural History) 1849.
EditorialPaleontologist Paul Sereno, who led the team that discovered the Carcharodontosaurus 1996, presents his findings in New York on May 16, 1996. (David Skull/The New York Times)
EditorialPaleontologist Paul Sereno, who led the team that discovered the Carcharodontosaurus 1996, presents his findings in New York on May 16, 1996. (David Skull/The New York Times)
EditorialMegatherium cuvierii, Print, Megatherium was a genus of elephant-sized ground sloths endemic to South America, sometimes called the giant ground sloth, that lived from the Early Pliocene through the end of the Pleistocene.Only a few other land mammals ...
EditorialMegatherium cuvierii, Print, Megatherium was a genus of elephant-sized ground sloths endemic to South America, sometimes called the giant ground sloth, that lived from the Early Pliocene through the end of the Pleistocene.Only a few other land mammals ...
EditorialMegatherium cuvierii, Print, Megatherium was a genus of elephant-sized ground sloths endemic to South America, sometimes called the giant ground sloth, that lived from the Early Pliocene through the end of the Pleistocene.Only a few other land mammals ...
EditorialMegasternum, Print, Pleurosternon is an extinct genus of cryptodire turtle from the late Jurassic period to the early Cretaceous period. Its type species, P. bullocki was described by the paleontologist Richard Owen (noted for coining the word Dinosaur...
EditorialMegatherium cuvierii, Print, Megatherium was a genus of elephant-sized ground sloths endemic to South America, sometimes called the giant ground sloth, that lived from the Early Pliocene through the end of the Pleistocene.Only a few other land mammals ...
EditorialMegatherium cuvierii, Print, Megatherium was a genus of elephant-sized ground sloths endemic to South America, sometimes called the giant ground sloth, that lived from the Early Pliocene through the end of the Pleistocene.Only a few other land mammals ...
EditorialMegatherium cuvierii, Print, Megatherium was a genus of elephant-sized ground sloths endemic to South America, sometimes called the giant ground sloth, that lived from the Early Pliocene through the end of the Pleistocene.Only a few other land mammals ...
EditorialSeahorse (Hippocampus punctutatus) and flying fish (Exocetus volitans). Handcolored engraving by Oudart from Orbigny's "Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle" (Universal Dictionary of Natural History) 1849.