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Journey to the museum's Prehistoric Lake County collection and meet a life-sized Dryptosaurus that used to roam Lake County millions of years ago. Kids can also help excavate an ice dig site and learn ...

If you have any dinosaur fans at home, you know that they can't seem to stop stomping around or sharing their latest dinosaur fact. Did you know that chickens are descendants from dinosaurs? Or that ...

CHICAGO - Millions of years in the making, a major discovery is turning heads around the globe. A paleontologist from the University of Chicago has uncovered a new dinosaur species in the Sahara ...

Sixty-five miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones movie breaks up the flat, monotone landscape. Consisting of shale, sandstone and rocks from an old coal ...

Late in the season of her field research in Tanzania, Jacqueline Lungmus stands in a dried up creek bed. She’s tired and run ...