The first book to illustrate a pencil was published in the 16th century, and its author was more interested in the properties of the lead than the implement itself. Woodcut illustration of a pencil ...

Kirk Johnson and Ray Troll met in the late 1980s, unknowing that each other’s skills would take them over 5,000 miles throughout the country to create a book about fossil education. Johnson, a ...

Learn about three momentous dinosaur findings from the fossil record Paul M. Barrett Scientists who study dinosaurs make new discoveries in the field, extracting previously unknown specimens from the ...

Two recent books, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, by Edward Dolnick, and Impossible Monsters, by Michael Taylor, recount the sensational discovery of reptile fossils in the 1810s and 1820s in Britain, ...