While they branched off from animals more than 1 billion years ago, making them more closely related to us than plants are, there is a large gap in the fossil record. For hundreds of millions of ...

Except it contains many of the world’s best-preserved, most diverse fossils. The defunct mine’s location in Grundy County is one of several sites spanning six counties that belong to the Mazon ...

And the Little Dal fossils are no different. "What we have is essentially something a bit like a Rorschach inkblot test, where there are some squiggles in a rock," says Jonathan Antcliffe ...

Before B.C.a fossil hunter Mike Trask died last week, he knew that recognition of his biggest discovery would live on. Now it has been confirmed that the ferocious-looking marine reptile he found ...

AURORA, N.C. (WITN) - From ancient shark teeth to historic fossils, downtown Aurora is turning into a time machine this weekend during the NC Fossil Festival! The Aurora Fossil Museum is hosting ...

Before British Columbia fossil hunter Mike Trask died last week, he knew that recognition of his biggest discovery would live on. Now it has been confirmed that the ferocious-looking marine ...

Before British Columbia fossil hunter Mike Trask died last week, he knew that recognition of his biggest discovery would live on. Now it has been confirmed that the ferocious-looking marine ...

A group of fossils of elasmosaurs—some of the most famous in North America—have just been formally identified as belonging to a "very odd" new genus of the sea monster, unlike any previously ...

The Mazon Creek fossil beds include a variety of sites, including local mine spoil piles, no-dig zones like the Mazonia-Braidwood State Fish and Wildlife Area, which requires a permit, and other ...

A fossil-hunting father-daughter team from Vancouver Island has been recognized in the naming of a new genus of giant prehistoric sea lizard found near Courtenay almost 40 years ago. Michael and ...

Alan Jonason describes himself as a fossil buff. "When I was a kid, I would fill my backpack up with rocks when I would go hiking," he explained. "I still have some of them." To this day ...

Fossils found in Romania hint that hominins left Africa nearly two million years ago—well before previous estimates. The evidence comes from Grăunceanu, a fossil site in the Olteț River Valley.