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The Herbarium Foray Program turns 20.

A new method of sampling fossil leaves allows researchers to more accurately predict climate temperatures.

When paleontologists cut into the fossilized jaw of a distant mammal relative, they got more than they bargained for—more teeth, to be specific.

An early mammal that had, pound-for-pound, the strongest bite force of any mammal ever recorded.

The Burke paleontology team is preparing a portion of the lower right jaw from the 66.3-million-year-old T. rex discovered this summer.

More than fifty years ago, a 25-foot-long dugout canoe was found eroding out of a muddy bank of the Green River.

Do bird populations living on different mountain ranges evolve independently of one another?

This stone woodcarving adze—broken and embedded in a piece of cedar—is unlike most items in our archaeological collections.

Studying microfossil teeth of the Sagebrush Vole from Washington state to understand a pattern of evolution.