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Ancient “Oddball” Mammal Reshuffles Family Tree?
By Linda Qiu A mysterious mammal that waded through South Asian swamps 48 million years ago is a distant cousin of modern rhinoceroses and tapirs, a new study says. The discovery, based on fossils...
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Prehistoric Sea Monsters Emerge From the Arctic Landscape
By Aubrey Jane Roberts and Victoria Engelschiøn Nash Professor Jørn Hurum and his team of thirteen are on a paleontological expedition in the Norwegian Arctic of Spitsbergen. We are on a mission to...
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Best Job Ever: Hunting for the Bones of a Loch Ness-Like Monster
By Sharon Pieczenik As it turns out, the Jurassic Park films are not entirely accurate. Aubrey Jane Roberts, a National Geographic Young Explorers grantee and professional dinosaur hunter (aka...
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Back In Black – Shales
Professor and Emerging Explorer Jørn Hurum and his team, has returned to the Norwegian Arctic to search for fossils of ancient marine reptiles. We are back in the black Triassic rocks for two weeks to...
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Another Hill Bites The Dust
Snow, rain and wind may break our bones, but will never defeat us. Every inch of shale we remove to uncover fossilised bones, is a small victory for science. New species and discoveries are hiding in...
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Heaven Is a Hole of Dirt
The Spitsbergen Mesozoic Research Group has become a bit ambitious. Every year each hole we dig in search of fossils becomes deeper, or wider and bigger than the last. Our two week field season in the...
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Arctic Sea Monster’s Hips Don’t Lie
By Lene Liebe Delsett Last year we packed all of the fossil Spitsbergen marine reptiles in boxes and gave them museum numbers, and realized that we did not have 30 or 40, as we once thought. The number...
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A Family of Explorers in Search of Some of Earth’s Oldest Fossils
After a week’s worth of preparation and a day’s worth of traveling, my family and I have finally made it to Nilpena Station, a 950-square-kilometer cattle ranch located in the South Australian outback....
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Fossil-Finding 101: How to Spot the Right Rocks
Emily Hughes has been following her mother, paleontologist Mary Droser, into the field all her life. This summer the family is back in Australia digging up some of Earth’s oldest fossils. A question...
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Let’s Talk About Sex—At the Dawn of Life on Earth
Whether sexual or asexual, reproduction is a necessity for all organisms that want to ensure their genetic material survives after they’ve bitten the dust (or in this case, the wet sand)....
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