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What’s “The Field”? It’s where paleontologists go to look for fossils. We call it Field Work—hence “going to the field”—and it can take place anywhere we travel to search for fossils. This year I was invited to join the crew from the Burpee Museum (in Illinois)

In May (2016), a study was published describing a new marsupial from Australia with an interesting set of teeth. Let’s dive right in. Firstly, what is a marsupial? A marsupial is a type of mammal that has a pouch. When a marsupial baby is born, it crawls into the

In May (2016), two new horned dinosaurs were discovered, and today we will talk about one of them. Horned dinosaurs, like Triceratops and its relatives, are called ceratopsians (meaning “horned faced dinosaur”) and are divided into two groups: Chasmosaurines and Centrosaurines. Chasmosaurines have short nose horns, long eyebrow horns, and

Last week in May (2016) an article was published describing a new marine reptile that lived during the Mesozoic, specifically during the Middle Triassic (274–242 million years ago). Even though we had known about this animal from previous studies, this new study described the shape of the skull based

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