When Gabriel Ugueto was growing up in Caracas, he was “obsessed” with a book: A Guide to the Birds of Venezuela. When he cracked open the book’s spine, hundreds of detailed illustrations of the ...

On a rainy afternoon at the American Museum of Natural History, the illustrator Mick Ellison made his way through the crowds to a creature he had drawn—forty-five million years, give or take, after it ...

Two centuries ago, naturalists began to realize that the enormous, fossilized bones they’d been finding all over the world belonged to extinct animals. A lot of extinct animals, who had once ruled the ...

Reconstructing dinosaurs from dusty squashed bones takes plenty of imagination. From the lumbering dragons of 19th century illustrations to the scaly lizards of Jurassic Park, scientists don't always ...