A trace fossil of 66 dinosaur footprints has been uncovered in Australia, providing a rare snapshot of dinosaur behavior and ...

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

A William Paterson University professor says school officials lost his rare fossil collection and that the artifacts were dumped in a landfill. Now he’s suing. Martin Becker, an environmental science ...

A hunter in West Texas was searching for some deer. Instead, he uncovered a rare fossil from a prehistoric species.

A recent study published in Quaternary Research describes the discovery and identification of possible aardvark tracks and ...

Scientists in Australia have made an exciting discovery—a 15-million-year-old fossilized freshwater fish that not only provides clues about ancient life but also has preserved stomach contents and ...

Scientists discovered a 15-million-year-old fish fossil, Ferruaspis brocksi. It has preserved stomach contents and visible ...

THE year is 1992 and a rare fossil collection is featured in Taunton at the Somerset Museum. Multiple artefacts including bones of woolly rhinoceroses, mammoths, sabre tooth tigers and cave lions and ...

For his part, Wittry tries to stay on everyone’s good side, he says. He never knows when a rare fossil or even an entire collection might come his way. “I deal with everybody,” he said.

Jay Damm hunting fossils at Mazonia State Fish and Wildlife Area leads the note package around Chicago outdoors and beyond.