A fossil site in China that has given up thousands of stunningly well-preserved specimens to paleontologists since the 1920s was the Pompeii of the early Cretaceous. Millions of years ago, birds, ...

A growing number of researchers are turning to the Pompeii's graffiti to better understand the lives, humor and concerns of ...

A series of fossil discoveries in the 1990s changed our understanding of the lives of early birds and mammals, as well as the dinosaurs they shared an ecosystem with. All those discoveries had one ...

As I saw the images—the first time in 2,000 years that anyone had laid eyes on them—I felt a great surge of emotion, especially because they remain only yours for a few moments before they are ...