Imagine digging in your garden and coming across something unexpected: a fossil! Here's what you should do to identify it and ...

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

Dinosaur stories are often written for children, with a cast of neon cartoon characters or animatronic models. But for adults ...

What began as a relaxing day along an Alabama river turned into an unforgettable fossil discovery. Beneath the clear water and ancient sandstone, explorers found perfectly preserved plant fossils ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...

Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh ...

Take a step into the fossil bed at the Edelman Fossil Park and Museum in Sewell, New Jersey, and you’ll find yourself completely immersed in the past. That’s because it’s the Garden State’s ...

In his laboratory at the University of Poitiers in France, Abderrazak El Albani contemplates the rock glittering in his hands ...

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously ...

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 ...

In a surprising twist, agarbage dump in Spain, has turned into a hotspot for ancient fossils. The Can Mata landfill, which ...