Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a teen, road trips to Dorset meant three things: Moores biscuits, swimming at the Durdle Door arch, and fossil hunting. We ...

A simple fossil hunt on Florida’s Peace River quickly turned into something much bigger. Shark teeth, fossilized bones, ...

Our planet is several billion years old—a number so vast it’s almost impossible to truly comprehend. In all that time, countless plants, animals, organisms, and creatures of every kind have come and ...

Every fossil is a rarity because most organisms never make it into the fossil record. They’re scavenged, decompose, or vanish before they can be buried and compacted into sedimentary rocks, where most ...

Fossil identification hours are between 10am-noon and 2pm-4pm. If you don’t have a fossil, bring your questions, and get hands-on with real specimens at the touchable fossils table. Check out amazing ...

Researchers used a miniaturized laser mass spectrometer to identify signs of fossils in a gypsum quarry in Algeria. They suggest the same tool could find early ...