A fossil is the remains or impression of an organism from a previous geological time period that has been preserved in the Earth’s crust. Plants, animals, bugs, wood, and even poop can be fossils, ...

I know you're seeing this in February, but this was our first fossil hunt of the year and it was ON the first day of the year ...

A woman was delighted to find what she described as an ancient shark tooth on a Florida beach on July 12. This footage, filmed and posted to Instagram by Nichole Mercuri, shows her discovering the ...

Calling all amateur paleontologists! Explore the badlands of Nebraska and hunt for fossils at this remote destination inside Oglala National Grassland.

On the floor of a 32-foot-deep small lake just northeast of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Calvin students are literally digging up ...

Finding a dinosaur bone in a core is like hitting a hole in one from the Moon,” James Hagadorn, the museum’s curator of ...

A team of paleontologists led by National Geographic Explorer Paul Sereno uncovered a trove of dinosaur fossils in the Sahara ...

Hueston Woods State Park in Ohio is known for its marine fossils. At this free park, visitors can take any fossils they find ...

Experts believe the fossil is nearly 70 million years old and likely came from an herbivorous species of dinosaur ...

We won the dinosaur lottery,” says curator James Hagadorn, who helped ID the 67.5-million-year-old bit of bone.

A drilling project at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science has unearthed a dinosaur fossil dating back 70 million years.

Neil Shubin, a University of Chicago researcher known for co-discovering a ′missing link’ fossil fish, will lead the National ...