The museum hopes that after learning about the planet’s prehistoric past, people will do more to preserve Earth’s future.

“The discovery of the 15 million-year-old freshwater fish fossil offers us an unprecedented opportunity to understand ...

Illinois’ commercial fossil trade is alive and well thanks to collectors who are motivated by money, science and the hunt — and who test the outer bounds of legality.

In 1889 in the foothills of Mount Tuscolo, 25km south-east of Rome, farm workers discovered something extraordinary. While ...

How Did These Seashell Fossils Get Here Posted: March 17, 2025 | Last updated: March 17, 2025 It's not uncommon to find the fossil imprints of seashells in the rocks lining streambeds here in ...

On a recent Monday, he and two students were plumbing the secrets of a 300-million-year-old salamander ancestor from a rock imprint using CT scans and electron microscopy. The fossil had been ...

In the forests and farmland of eastern Poland, Grzegorz Wróbl set out on a mission to find fossils. Instead, he found an ...

"Fossil feathers are usually preserved in ancient mudrocks laid down in lakes or lagoons. The fossil vulture is preserved in ...

In the forests and farmland of eastern Poland, Grzegorz Wróbl set out on a mission to find fossils. Instead ... was known for using cords to make imprints on their ceramics, according to the ...

In a wind-swept stretch of Morocco’s Middle Atlas Mountains, paleontologists digging through Jurassic-era stone have ...