Fossil hunting is quite the fun hobby, and if you want to indulge that interest, there are some specific places that you ...

It was located at a fossil site in Morocco, which experts suggest may indicate that this is where the species may have first ...

Jan Zalasiewicz: Sarah has spent a career looking at some of the most weird and wonderful and best-preserved fossils, ranging half a billion years back and more, to see exactly how they preserve.

The bone market boomed in the late 1980s, when dealers from Japan, flying high on an economic bubble, started buying up some of the biggest and best U.S. fossils and installing them in new museums ...

Fossils can be broadly divided into body fossils and trace fossils. Body fossil – The remains of part (or all) of an actual organism. In the kits, the trilobite (2), brachiopod (3), dinosaur bone (4), ...

Looking again through the magnifying lens at the fossil's surface, one of us, Sabrina Curran, took a deep breath. Illuminated ...

With rocks spanning millions of years of geological time and the ocean steadily eroding the island’s 57 miles of coastline, the Isle of Wight is one of the UK’s best fossil hunting locations. There’s ...

Typically, amber forms over millions of years as tree resin fossilizes, but paleontologists have sped that up, creating amber-like fossils from pine resin in 24 hours. The technique could help ...

To find answers, a team of researchers studied North America’s fossil record, focusing on the 18 million years before the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period. The new analysis ...