The story was the same… from the Babylonian point of view, this was a matter of fact thing, says Dr. Irving Finkel, the British Museum’s expert in cuneiform, his voice imbued with centuries of human ...

Highly detailed fossils are typically found in shale or other fine-grained sedimentary rocks. These ones? They’re made of ...

You’ve heard of carbon dating, but it’s not used for dinosaur fossils. Find out what methods scientists use to determine the ...

Researchers from universities in Turkey and the United States believe they may have found the ruins of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat, the highest mountain in Turkey. The biblical account tells of God ...

Were you the kid that spent hours digging in the dirt looking for treasures growing up? Or perhaps you’re still fascinated by the science of fossils and prehistoric creatures? Well, it’s not out of ...

Over the past 18 years, the Edelman Fossil Park and Museum in New Jersey has yielded over 100,000 fossils belonging to more than 100 species. That’s a pretty remarkable fossil hotspot–especially ...

Rock hyraxes, known in southern Africa more often as "dassies," are furry, thickset creatures with short legs and no ...

A "teenaged" pachycephalosaur from Mongolia's Gobi Desert may provide answers to lingering questions around the dinosaur group, according to new research published today in the journal Nature. The ...

Participants of the Adaptive Nature Group recently learned about rocks and fossils. The next Adaptive Nature Group event is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 6 at Buzzard's Roost. CHILLICOTHE — Nature ...