WHILE Dorset's Jurassic Coast is the country's most well-known spot for fossil hunting, there are other parts of the UK where Brits can live out their Jurassic Park fantasies. One of those places ...

Charles Shelton Jr. has collected thousands of shark teeth, jaws and other fossils over the past three decades. He now shares ...

Jan. 7, 2025 — A newly described dinosaur whose fossils were recently uncovered is challenging the existing narrative, with evidence that the reptiles were present in the northern hemisphere ...

“If it’s rock, it won’t.” This one stuck. Fossil hunting has always been stubbornly low-tech. When it comes to fieldwork, not much has changed since the great “bone rush” of the 19th ...

Fossils are the imprinted remains of ancient creatures, forgotten about by the world, hidden in rocks under our feet. My name is Mary Anning, and just as fossils are forgotten for many years, so ...

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Dec. 17, 2024 — Scientists have discovered the oldest known animal with saber teeth: a predator that lived 270 million years ago. This animal, from before the age of the dinosaurs, was a dog ...

A West Virginia native, he started hunting for the tiny dark triangular fossils when he was a toddler during his family's annual Myrtle Beach vacations. As he got older, Shelton and his mother ...

Old Tentacled 'Cthulhu' Fossil, Reveals Monstrous Relative of Modern Sea Cucumbers Scientists have found and reconstructed a ...

That’s when experts stepped in — unearthing the first mastodon fossils in the Empire State in over 11 years. The discovery is (literally) a big deal. Researchers with the State Museum and SUNY ...