Serpentine-necked, four-flippered plesiosaurs were among the most successful marine predators in the time of dinosaurs. A remarkably complete and well-preserved fossil has revealed that at least some ...

An extraordinary fossil bed in the arid grasslands of the Australian continent, called McGraths Flat, really is the Lagerstätte that keeps on giving. Just a few years after uncovering a trove of ...

The United States' national parks, especially those in the American West, are famous for their amazing dinosaur discoveries. The aptly-named Dinosaur National Monument, which overlaps Utah and ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Jeffrey Martz is the curator of paleontology at The Museum at Texas Tech. “We actually have one of the most important collections in the world of fossils from the beginning of ...

While fossils can now be found in stores from Moab to Manhattan, the most unusual (and valuable) specimens tend to show up at auction houses—or vanish into the shadowy world of private purchasers, ...

It is HOT, so getting to spend some time underwater and do some SCUBA Diving felt amazing! On top of that, we were looking for Ice Age fossils in a beautiful Florida River. It was an incredible day.

Correction & clarification: A prior version of this story misstated the title of Charles Darwin’s book. MANTUA, N.J. − Kenneth Lacovara's career in paleontology has taken him around the world: He's ...

(CNN) — A legendary fossil housed at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh features skeletons apparently locked in prehistoric combat — an epic meeting of two of the world’s ...

Bring your fossils for in-person identification by a paleontologist (between 10am-noon and 2pm-4pm). If you don’t have a fossil, bring your questions, and get hands-on with real specimens at our ...

(This program is no longer streaming). Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs in a fiery global catastrophe. But we know little about how their successors, the mammals, ...