The curated home for all of paleontology, on the open web.
Come for your favorite dinosaur, stay for the whole story around it. Accurate science, original art, and threads you can follow across the entire history of life, all in one place.
Searching across Pteros, Paleostock, 252MYA, Earth Archives and the rest of the network.
The member sites
Whatever hooked you on the ancient world, there's a home for it here. Sites devoted to dinosaurs, trilobites, prehistoric plants, the mineral kingdom, and the whole sweep of deep time — each obsessive about its own subject, all drawing on the same trustworthy record, so the more you explore, the more it connects.
More than a list of sites
The sites share a common backbone, so the whole network works like one trustworthy place. What you learn on one holds up and builds on the next.
Accurate, trustworthy science
Every site draws from the same vetted record of species, geologic time, and authorities. When the science is corrected, it updates everywhere at once, so you never have stale knowledge.
Original art, as accurate as it is beautiful
Reconstructions made by working paleoartists, grounded in the science and gorgeous to look at, not the same stock images recycled across the web.
Everything is interconnected
Follow a single thread across the network: find your favorite dinosaur and learn literally everything about it. Completely nerd out.
Built to be built on
The same components that power our own sites ship as a public library. Whether you publish, develop, or advertise, there is a way to plug in.
Embed the widgets, free to start
Museums, blogs, classrooms, and any website can drop a one-line embed and turn our species cards, video rails, and era timelines into rich content. Free for non-commercial use, with a premium subscription for commercial use and advanced features.
Open-source npm packages
Build paleo-adjacent products on the same component library, design tokens, and taxonomy types we use ourselves. Open source, MIT licensed, framework-agnostic web components with a typed API client.
Reach the paleo audience
Placements across owned and partner sites, and contextual sponsorship built into the widgets themselves. One audience this niche has never had consolidated before.
The Record
Occasional updates from across the Paleo Network: a heads-up when a new member site opens, the odd thing worth your time, and every so often a deeper look. Free, no fixed schedule, no filler.
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