Writing about 100 years after the death of the Roman emperor Augustus, the historian Suetonius noted the leader’s fascination with fossils. Ruling from 63 B.C.E. to 14 C.E. the emperor prominently ...

A newly discovered 460-million-year-old trilobite showed signs of being shaped and flattened—the first indication that ancient Romans purposely collected and modified the tiny fossils. A computer ...

Despite how Ross’ paleontology career is treated by his companions in Friends, there’s something special about finding the remains of creatures that lived millions if not billions of years before us.