They are, in the opinion of no less an authority than the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, “the world’s most important animal fossils”—not Tyrannosaurus rex, not Lucy, but a collection of ...

The tacit approval of a race science conference at UT, alongside the large-scale defunding and muzzling of American science, marks a very dark chapter.

And while its scientific roster includes such luminaries as National Institutes of Health director Harold Varmus, Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, and vaccine pioneer Jonas Salk, the academy ...

Consider this quote from the late Stephen Jay Gould, a paleontologist and one of the most celebrated and widely-read scholars in modern history: “I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and ...

In 1989, paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould popularized Burgess' "weird wonders" in his bestselling book Wonderful Life. But he argued that Walcott had erroneously shoehorned the fossils into ...

An occasional series where Mongabay’s founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives, and story summaries. Elisabeth Vrba did not set out to overturn the way scientists understood evolution.

While paleontologists have unearthed four-toed ankylosaur footprints throughout North America, three-toed ones have remained elusive—until now. An international team of researchers has ...