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What kinds of fossils will you find? What fossils you’ll find really depends on where you are and how old the rocks are. If you are hunting for dinosaurs, the Isle of Wight is a great place to start, ...
When 54-year-old Jon Gopsill took his two dogs out for a stroll on a beach in Stolford, Somerset, in the UK, he never could have anticipated what they’d stumble across. Gopsill is an amateur ...
CONWAY — For 33 years, Donald Kirkpatrick has searched for history's remnants. Fossil hunting became his passion project, taking the Horry County paleontologist on quests for ancient sharks ...
What ensued was the identification of 52 species of sharks and bony fishes in Alabama and several scientific papers published about them, all thanks to that 2016 dredging project. In the new sand ...
A palaeontologist has discovered a huge dinosaur footprint on a beach on the Isle of Wight. Fossil guide Joe Thompson said the 130-million-year-old Iguanodon print at Shepherd's Chine was the best ...
Tourists at a beach house in South Carolina who thought they found fossils have accidentally discovered they found human remains at a forgotten 200-year-old burial site.
The fossil hunters used angle grinders and rock saws to extract fossils Fossil collectors have been using angle grinders and rock saws to excavate large ammonites from a protected beach ...
When Ruby Reynolds and her father found a fossil on an English beach, they didn’t know it belonged to an 82-foot ichthyosaur that swam during the days of the dinosaurs. By Kate Golembiewski In ...