65 miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones contains many of the world’s best-preserved, most diverse fossils.

Christopher Dean at University College London and his team analysed a dataset of more than 8000 fossils from four types of dinosaurs that lived between 84 million and 66 million years ago in North ...

Research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology has unveiled a landmark discovery—fossils of the world's oldest known megaraptorid and the first evidence of carcharodontosaurs ...

Kowinsky has made a few journeys to the stream beds here to fossil hunt, a hobby he first picked up in his early 20s, some 25 years ago. It's a hobby that has brought him to Culvert Cliffs in ...

The fossils, estimated to date back 90 million years, were part of a new dinosaur species previously unknown in East Asia. It’s unclear how long Port Island will remain closed to visitors.

When the “Peking Man” fossils went missing during World War II, the loss was considered one of the greatest tragedies in the history of paleoanthropology. After almost 80 years of searching ...

The fossils, which show both hard exterior features and soft inner tissues, shed new light on the fascinating creatures. Trilobites were very abundant marine arthropods, protected by calcified ...

Cory’s Lane, Portsmouth People have been telling me for years that the best place to find fossils in Rhode Island is along the beach at the end of Cory’s Lane that looks out over Narragansett Bay.

While fossils have been discovered at hundreds of parks, a handful of properties, which Santucci calls “Fossil Parks,” have been established primarily for their paleontological resources and ...

MAEBASHI -- Fossils found in east Japan's Gunma and Tochigi prefectures have been identified as of a new dolphin genus and species, and the ones in Gu ...

Iraq on Friday reopened its North Refinery in Baiji that was shut for a decade during the violence and chaos that followed the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 which made it nearly impossible to run one ...