Today, fossils feel almost self-explanatory. You see a tooth, a shell, or a skeleton in a museum case and instinctively treat it as evidence of ancient life, preserved over immense spans of time. That ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a teen, road trips to Dorset meant three things: Moores biscuits, swimming at the Durdle Door arch, and fossil hunting. We ...

Paleontologists have identified fossils of an ancient species of bug that spent the past 450 million years covered in fool's gold in central New York. The new species, Lomankus edgecombei, is a ...

South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ago. All this time we were aware that there might be more, even older ...

One of the world’s top insect fossil beds, which has suffered extensive damage as a result of commercial fossil hunting, will be somewhat better protected due to recent efforts by the Province of ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Amateur fossil hunter Eddie Templeton came across the discovery of a lifetime on the bank of a creek ...

Scientists have identified a new species of non-biting midge—a type of small fly—from 151-million-year-old specimens discovered by an amateur fossil hunter. Louise Reily / Australian Museum Amateur ...

A Florida man recently found a prehistoric jackpot while diving off the Sunshine State’s coast. Lundberg, who studied marine biology at the University of South Florida, told Fox News Digital that he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. a fossilized snake Two researchers discovered what may be the longest snake ever to have crawled across the continent when they ...