Saturday, March 17 — Fossil Hunters: Learn how to identify fossils like the experts and bring fossil finds for expert identification. The event is for students in grades 2 to 5 and will take place ...

Fossil enthusiast David Thompson has been digging up remnants of the past since he was a kid. “Back in the '40s, '50s, '60s, kids didn’t get taken anyplace,” Thompson said. “I mean, not like days now, ...

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 ...

AURORA, N.C. (WNCT) — The Aurora Fossil Museum has a number of incredible finds housed at its facility, including those famous shark teeth. So you can imagine their surprise when they were told about ...

University of Texas researchers led a study identifying dinosaur fossils found in Patagonia, a region spanning southern Argentina and Chile, providing new insights into the period of time right before ...

By Will Dunham (Reuters) -Microscopic magnetic fossils found in North Atlantic seafloor sediments may represent components of an internal "GPS system" for an ancient marine creature that used Earth's ...

If you look closer at the building stones, tiles and pavements of the big city, you can find a hidden world of geology and history, from fascinating fossils to unusual rocks. In the middle of the City ...

Paleontologists have long wrestled with the challenge of identifying the genders of dinosaurs from the fossils they leave behind. Once the soft tissues like reproductive organs have decayed away, ...

Researchers excavated fossils from a site in Turkey that helped them fill in some of the history of a previously unknown continent called Balkanatolia. Alexis Licht and Grégoire Métais Millions of ...

A fossil discovered 13 years ago in Egypt's Western Desert has been identified as a prehistoric whale believed to have roamed 43 million years ago that had four legs and could live both on land and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. AURORA, N.C. (WNCT) — The Aurora Fossil ...