The three young explorers participated in the excavation of the fossilized remains. Dr. Tyler R. Lyson In the summer of 2022, three boys made a rare scientific find while hunting for fossils on a hike ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Tri-State kids were invited to the University of Cincinnati on Wednesday to take a closer look at fossils. The program is an effort to give students an understanding of the number ...

South Africa has one of the world’s richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school textbooks contain ...

Imagine shoveling dirt to create a backyard garden and finding a fossil. It looks like a seashell, but you live a long ways from the ocean. Is it a rare fossil from hundreds of millions of years ago, ...

(Reuters) - A rare fossil of an adolescent Tyrannosaurus rex has been excavated in North Dakota's badlands - a find noteworthy for the scientific insight it may offer into the life history of this ...

New analysis shows several families of dinosaurs were likely thriving in North America in the latter days of the dinosaur era. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes Diversity is central to one of the ...

The discovery may push back the emergence of the reptiles that once ruled the Earth, and clarify how dinosaurs like the Triceratops and Stegosaurus emerged. By Asher Elbein A dog-size reptile slipped ...

Some of the last dinosaurs in the world were healthy and thriving right up until the day they were annihilated by asteroid Armageddon, a new study on fossils from New Mexico finds. Researchers dated ...

Scientists in Brazil identified marine worms that made at least some trace fossil burrows called Bifungites. By Priyanka Runwal If you know where to look, you can find dumbbell-shaped fossils in rock ...