This video documents a full day spent mining an active fossil site, uncovering layers of ancient earth in search of ...

RALEIGH – Researchers have developed and demonstrated a robot capable of sorting, manipulating, and identifying microscopic marine fossils. The new technology automates a tedious process that plays a ...

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 ...

A site in the San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico is providing a rare glimpse into the last days of the dinosaurs.Rocks and fossils at the Naashoibito Member site show an ecosystem that was ...

Microscopic magnetic fossils found in North Atlantic seafloor sediments may represent components of an internal "GPS system" ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...